1. Avoid sending a tweet in the heat of the moment.

2. I always worry I'll go too far in the heat of the moment.

3. In the heat of the moment he had wanted her but it had meant nothing after all.

4. US Secretary of State John Kerry’s heat-of-the-moment comment that a military strike on Syria could be avoided if all chemical weapons were turned over was a diplomatic gift to Russia, and it responded with alacrity.