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How to use mood in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, interjection

Mood means a mental or emotional state, composure. Example: “I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.”

Examples of mood by meaning

nounA mental or emotional state, composure.

  • I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.

nounEmotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

  • Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message.1979, Judith Glassman, The Year in Music, 1979, →ISBN

nounA sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

  • He's in a mood with me today.
  • He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.1964, Philip K. Dick, “FOUR”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers...
  • Rath was clearly in a mood, and only Jay could fix that.2010, Michelle West, City of Night: A Novel of the House War, Penguin, →ISBN

nounA disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

  • I'm not in the mood for running today.
  • "The Placer SPCA brings by some kittens and puppies, and I do my best to get everyone tipsy and in a donating mood."2018, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Frost, Mind Your Muse Books, →ISBN

nounA prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

  • A good politician senses the mood of the crowd.
  • A novel that catches the mood of prewar Berlin.
  • By the early 1970s, more than 50,000 American deaths and the accompanying failed foreign-policy objectives had changed the country's mood.2010, Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Methods Matter, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8

nounA familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

  • I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”2019, Kris Ripper, Runaway Road Trip: (A Definitely-Not-Romantic Adventure)
  • To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times
  • I think I can speak for us all when I say this tee is a MOOD.2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan

interjectionUsed to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

  • ⁠—I am feeling very exhausted today. ⁠—Mood.
  • I mean, mood.2020 April 22, Julia Alexander, “The joy of spying on celebrity homes over Zoom and Instagram Live”, in The Verge
  • You can't just say Mood and post random unrelated shit!2022 January 15, Smrutisnat Jena, “10 Times Bollywood Celebrities Posted Something On Instagram & Desi Internet Just Went 'Hain?'”, in...

nounA verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion...

  • The mood most frequently encountered in English is the indicative, of which the mood in this sentence is an example.
  • The grammatical category of mood makes it possible for speakers to signal their attitude to what they are saying, in particular to indicate whether what they are saying is to be understood as a fact, a possibility or a command.2011, Martin Durrell, A. E. Hammer, Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, 5th edition, London: Hodder Education, →ISBN

More sentences with mood

  • He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.From the entry poison
  • Let’s go out to eat. I’m in the mood for Japanese.From the entry Japanese
  • Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.From the entry ending
  • With the mood broken, what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.From the entry break
  • It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.From the entry swing
  • It seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium.From the entry lithium
  • For many people, the benefits of exercise in improving mood and preventing achiness are appreciable.From the entry appreciable
  • Keep a sharp eye on the referee during warm-up to check out his mood.From the entry warm-up
  • The mood at work has been tense, so he's looking for ways to lighten it up.From the entry lighten up
  • Please put the Christmas decorations away, I'm really not in a festive mood.From the entry festive
  • He's usually in a good mood — the operative word there being "usually". Today was a disaster.From the entry operative
  • I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me.From the entry in the mood
  • Her wild mood swings displayed the natures of her multiple personalities.From the entry natures
  • He was in such a good mood that he even managed to take out the rubbish jocularly.From the entry jocularly
  • The worst thing about my wife's pregnancy was her awful mood swings.From the entry mood swing
  • The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.From the entry setter
  • The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.From the entry insurrectionary
  • He's got some bad news in store for us, judging from his mood.From the entry in store
  • My wife wasn't in the best of moods on our honeymoon last week. ― Trouble in paradise?From the entry trouble in paradise
  • He had his mood message set to "At work," so I didn't disturb him.From the entry mood message
  • The rose petals and mood lighting at the restaurant provide great atmosphere.From the entry mood lighting
  • Probably he's in a bad mood because he didn't get his oats last night.From the entry get one's oats

Meaning of mood

  1. noun A mental or emotional state, composure.
  2. noun Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
  3. noun A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

Full definition of mood

Questions about mood in a sentence

How do you use mood in a sentence?
Mood is used as a noun and interjection. For example: “I've been in a bad mood since I was dumped by my ex-boyfriend.”
What is a short sentence with mood?
“I mean, mood.”
What does mood mean?
Mood means a mental or emotional state, composure.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mood (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.

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