How do you use the word "move" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "move": Don't you move from here. Move over a little if you please.

Move Meaning

/muːv/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

verbTo act; to take action; to begin to act

Sentence Examples

Don't you move from here.

Move over a little if you please.

We pushed and pushed but the piano wouldn't move.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

travel motion movement

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please ____ the chair closer to the table so I can sit.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We decided to ____ to a larger apartment in the city center because we needed more space for our growing library of various history books.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm." — 1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] , 4th edition, page 252:

"Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion." — 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy, page 95:

"He then moved from Nanking to Wuhan and finally to Chungking, but when his health deteriorated, he went to Chiang-chin, a small village near Chungking, for recuperation. There he died on 27 March 1942." — 1986, Wen-shun Chi, “Ch’en Tu-hsiu (1879-1942)”, in Ideological Conflicts in Modern China: Democracy and Authoritarianism, published 1992, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:

"Seducer of the People, not moved with the Piety of his Life" — 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

"No female arts his mind could move." — 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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