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How to use moot in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Moot means subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. Example: “That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.”

Examples of moot by meaning

adjectiveSubject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

  • The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 477

adjectiveHaving no practical consequence or relevance.

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

verbTo bring up as a subject for debate.

  • 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.2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

nounA mutual follower on a social media platform.

  • Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10
  • I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222

More sentences with moot

  • Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.From the entry moot point
  • Who really owned that horse is a moot point now that it has run away.From the entry moot point
  • The language sounds random – “moot moot” and the rest – but it’s actually quite precise.2016 January 11, David Sant, “How we made Pingu”, in The Guardian. From the entry grammelot
  • If this engine was already running like this be4 you tore it down-it is a moot point.2003 January 12, BACKNCARDR, “Pistons got mixed up”, in rec.autos.tech (Usenet), retrieved 14 Apr 2022. From the entry be4
  • The plant is being built near Lyuban, the town that the EU alleges was mooted to be named in his honour.2021 June 27, Robert Mendick, “Russian oligarch with UK property empire escapes sanctions despite links to Belarus dictator”, in The…. From the entry Lyuban
  • Such thoughts were simply moot at this stage however.2016, Joshua Causer, A Slacker's Road Map of The Universe. From the entry nope out
  • He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand. From the entry cinch
  • Returning just the six miles from Bere Alston to Tavistock has been mooted, but again it seems to be going nowhere very slowly.2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 47. From the entry cry out
  • The NRC is a hugely controversial policy mooted last year in Assam, a region of India which shares a porous border with Bangladesh.2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN. From the entry NRC
  • Indeed, there were so many of the former that I once mooted that all Lees should be arrested at birth and kept in preventative detention.2017, Theodore Dalrymple, The Knife Went In. From the entry lee
  • The idea was no sooner mooted, than we were reliably informed that we would have to play down considerably the Muslim component, sheltering behind a broader allochthone scout concept.2004, John Eade, Dyab Abou Jahjah, Rosemary Bechler, Identities on the move, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry allochthone
  • He'd never thought himself especially susceptible to womanscent, but suddenly he felt hazy; before he could tell her about anger incapacitating him, his body's reaction made that claim moot.1991, F. M. Busby, chapter 17, in Slow Freight, Bantam Books, page 188. From the entry womanscent
  • Some may not see exactly eye to eye on the meaning of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and other moot names, but all Algonquinists concur on the meaning of Mississippi.c. 1960, The Totem Pole, volumes 43-45, Detroit: Aboriginal Research Club, →OCLC, page 10. From the entry Algonquinist
  • The question of flies—using that, to a woodsman, eminently connotive word in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sand-flies, deer-flies, black flies, and midges—is one much mooted in the craft.1903, Stewart Edward White, chapter 9, in The Forest, New York: The Outlook Company, page 105. From the entry embracement
  • A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport.2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56. From the entry environmentalist

Meaning of moot

  1. adjective Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. adjective Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. adjective Having no practical consequence or relevance.

Full definition of moot

Questions about moot in a sentence

How do you use moot in a sentence?
Moot is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.”
What is a short sentence with moot?
“Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there”
What does moot mean?
Moot means subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

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