Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use mo in a sentence

32 example sentences · adverb, adjective, symbol

Mo means to a greater degree. Example: “Mo wised him up about his situation.”

Examples of mo by meaning

symbolMonth.

  • 12 yr 4 mo 17 d

nounA molester.

  • The Idaho prison is full of cho-mos (child molesters), mos (molesters), and all types of sexual predators that have engaged in some type of abnormal sexual acts.2018, James Kühnel, Carceration State

nounA moron.

  • Hey, you mo!1997, “Detox”, in City, performed by Strapping Young Lad

More sentences with mo

  • Mo wised him up about his situation.From the entry wise
  • Basta bilisan mo na riyan." PAKIRAMDAM ni Jhunnica ay inaalat siya nang araw na iyon.2022 May 18, Sonia Francesca, Stallion Series 2: Eneru Villlasis, Precious Pages Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry coaster
  • “Mo Kellman lost his wife ten years ago.” “Does that mean the shiva is over?”2014, Suri Rosen, Playing with Matches. From the entry shiva
  • Mo said should-haves weren't going to do Lolly or me any good.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.113. From the entry should've
  • With that kind of enthusiasm, the word “moé” became widely used among “otaku.”2008: 語研, 英語で秋葉原を紹介する本, page 18 (語研). From the entry moé
  • Brethren if you want mo' preachin', save a little dram for me.2005, Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, page 137. From the entry mo'
  • Go on tell what prob your having at the mo with ye olde computere!1999 June 14, Tina Clarke, “Re: How to make LINKS open in new Browser Window?”, in microsoft.public.frontpage.client (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry -e
  • I'm planning to bf my son until he is 6 mos. old.1996 November 13, Michael K. Haldenstein, “How long to BF”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2025. From the entry bf
  • Mos Eisley spaceport- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.1977, Star Wars, spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness). From the entry villainy
  • "She were gentle, an' sweet, an' the mos' beautiful creetur in all--in--in the place where we lived.1908, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville. From the entry creetur
  • RICHARD.—In Lynn, March 11, Edmond, son of Felician and Marguerite Richard, 10 yrs. 4mos. 25 days.1901 March 12, “Deaths”, in Daily Evening Item, 5 o’clock edition, volume XLVII, number 79, Lynn, Mass.: Hastings & Sons Publishing Co.…. From the entry Felician
  • De lawd woan gives you mo' dan you kin tek.2021 July 10, Judith Ann McDowell, Fated Memories. From the entry jes
  • Of co'se dey wa'n't very hatty, but was mo' cappy.2017, Work Projects Administration, The Voices From The Past. From the entry hatty
  • Then refresh yourself veganly, then rump us some mo’.2010 April 23, James Renovitch, “Calendar: This week’s community listings”, in Louis Black, editor, The Austin Chronicle, volume 29…. From the entry veganly
  • I'm on the pat and mick at the mo.2008 July 22, Daisy Dart, “Re: Fatal bus accident in Leeds”, in Bus and Coach Forum, UK, retrieved 10 Aug 2015. From the entry on the pat and mick
  • One of the moſt conſiderable of theſe is Plavnich, which lies between the iſland of Veglia and that of Cherſo.2007 (originally 1778), Abbe Alberto Fortis, Travels Into Dalmatia, Cosimo, Inc., page 499. From the entry Veglia
  • Perhaps this was the ang mo way.2007, Dawn Farnham, chapter 23, in The Red Thread: A Chinese Tale of Love and Fate in 1830s Singapore (The Straits Quartet; 1), Singapore…. From the entry ang mo
  • This "daytime yakker" has got the "big mo," they say.2000 July 16, Jeff Macgregor, “Saving the World, One Sexy Teen at a Time”, in The New York Times. From the entry big mo
  • That's what I mo' wear wif my shoes.1998, Ted Shine, Contributions, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry wif
  • Industry is mo longer brazen about its wastes.1965 May 22, Robert Rienow, Leona Train Rienow, “Last Chance for the Nation’s Waterways”, in Saturday Review, volume XLVIII, New York…. From the entry plumbered
  • A millennium, mah son, am jes' de same as a thousan' legged worm, only hits got mo' legs.1916, Official Proceedings, Western Railway Club, page 143. From the entry mo'
  • But it's mos' as bad, suh — dey's moved away.1905, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Colonel's Dream. From the entry fambly
  • Moïse and Alexander both show interest in the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat whose obsession with unbordering the body is pointed out.2020, Myriam Moïse, Fred Réno, Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces, page 12. From the entry unborder
  • “Boy, you gotta be mo’ specificker.1928, Ralph Albert Parlette, editor, The Lyceum Magazine, XXXVIII, page 55. From the entry specificker
  • An' I got tired mos' ter death, an' I sneaked off inter the cutter they had tied ter the stern, an' went ter sleep.1904 February, J[ohn?] N[esmith?] Greely, “As to Contentment”, in The Yale literary magazine, Herrick & Noyes, page 205. From the entry byembye
  • But bear with me a mo while I get myself together (audience waits for an age while he searches through his coat for the golden envelope).1990 April, “Crash Readers’ Awards Ceremony”, in Oliver Frey, editor, Crash: ZX Spectrum, number 75, [Ludlow, Shropshire]: Newsfield…. From the entry coo
  • Yet when Chinese rule had been re-established soon after his passage, Charchan or Chü-mo figures once more in the Tʻang dynasty’s Annals as a place duly garrisoned.1912, Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay Personal Narrative of Exploration in Central Asia and Westernmost China, page 323. From the entry Charchan
  • Mo was doing most of the talking and even though he's a good guy, once he gets going about Betty you can forget it for the rest of the night.2013, Joe Colicchio, As Told By Monk, First Edition Design Pub., →ISBN. From the entry get going
  • You was a po' skimpy little boy no mo' than about fo'teen when you lef' home to come No'th; but I knowed you the minute I sot eyes on you.1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Thimble, Thimble”, in Options. From the entry skimpy

Meaning of mo

  1. adverb To a greater degree.
  2. adverb Further, longer.
  3. adjective Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances).

Full definition of mo

Questions about mo in a sentence

How do you use mo in a sentence?
Mo is used as an adverb, adjective and symbol. For example: “Mo wised him up about his situation.”
What is a short sentence with mo?
“Hey, you mo!”
What does mo mean?
Mo means to a greater degree.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mo (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use mo in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/mo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.