Vocabulary Word
Word: momentum
Definition: quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus; moving force
Definition: quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus; moving force
Sentences Containing 'momentum'
Then we began to gather momentum, and presently were fairly under way and booming along.
So that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake.
The first uprising momentum of the whale--modifying its direction as he struck the surface--involuntarily launched him along it, to a little distance from the centre of the destruction he had made; and with his back to it, he now lay for a moment slowly feeling with his flukes from side to side; and whenever a stray oar, bit of plank, the least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea.
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