Moot

//muːt//

"Moot" in a Sentence (24 examples)

Because our trip was cancelled, Tom and Ginny's argument about where to eat on the way became a moot point.

That's a moot point.

It's a moot point.

It's a moot point now anyway.

That's a moot point for now.

In 1964, Senator Barry Goldwater won the Republican presidential nomination even though questions were raised about his having been born in Arizona when it was still a territory and not a state. The question never gained much traction and was made moot when President Lyndon Johnson defeated Goldwater in a landslide.

[…] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]

[T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.

The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.

That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.

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The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.

The general idea was first mooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit deal with the UK.

a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.

An elevated cycleway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena was mooted as early as 1896 …

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

In that mater now I will mute no moir.

'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot

"Zarch tha whole worl', vrom Guenever / To Squier Mules' ta Muddever, / Moot iv'ry brack about un.

Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there

I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.

RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other

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