Sought in a sentence

Definition of Sought

• Perhaps it was better that the musician then only sought for sympathy among his own kind.
• Trembling with excitement, she sought for a path that should lead her to the seashore.
• His drivers sought cover in and under the wagons, where they had spent the night.
• He seemed content to carry his load of misery in silence, and only sought to carry it by my side.
• Some helped, other sought to dissuade him, as he secured the line around his own waist.
• In the Theaetetus we sought to discover the nature of knowledge and false opinion.
• Dupleix, however, was not driven to despair, but still sought means of renewing the contest.
• One seemed to see as well as feel this heat, and Griffiths sought vain relief by gazing shoreward.
• Ulric lay down upon the sand and wept, for he knew that the gift for which he had sought so long was not for him.
• It was with this in view that at this very time he paid a visit to the western tribes and sought to ascertain their ideas upon the subject.
• I sought various ways to divert his mind, and to arouse him from the constant meditations in which he was plunged.
• Horses were killed or disabled, and the men deserted the guns and sought shelter behind wall or embankment.
• The king at last dismounted and sought for an entrance, while the prince held the horses in the pelting rain.
• He looked from her to the man whom she sought to protect, and who answered, unasked, the thoughts that were in his mind.
• The swarthy face of the gipsy gleamed with passion, and his unoccupied right hand sought his side, as if for a weapon.
• We have sought the truth, and how far we have found it, no one should proceed to determine without having first read and examined.
• So saying he dismissed the assembled people, and beckoning Doola, sought the seclusion of his own apartment.
• I made no new friends nor acquaintances; sought none of the pleasures of Naples which my rank and fortune threw open to me.
• He fanned her; and she sought his eyes incessantly with the deep pure blue of hers, and slaked her ever-thirsty love with long, passionate gazing.
• When told of his fate she was horrified, and in the early morning she sought Strachan to plead for his life, but was rudely repulsed.
• Unknown to the King, she visited all the magicians in his realm, and sought their help to aid her in the fulfilment of her wish; but in vain.
• He sought her in her favorite nook by the side of the La Belle, and there he found her gazing pensively into the water.

• Have you really sought that strength?
• I sought the village church.
• Hubert bowed, and sought for words.
• I was guileless when I sought the interview.
• I have long sought you, Micio.
• The Englishman now sought the fair Venetian.
• When he was ready, he sought Grace, to say good-bye.
• He rather sought to laugh me out of my own forebodings and presentiments.
• I sought my mother's grave.
• His eyes sought his wife's in vain.
• In vain had her hand been sought by the beaux for twenty miles around.
• They sought rather to write a history of peoples than a history of kings.
• Happiness, which had fled him in his palace, sought him out in his dungeon.
• I sought to serve my fellow-men, and they have persecuted me from among them.
• Harry and Jack sought shelter in a clump of bushes by the roadside.
• Her hand sought the bosom of her dress, but Tom did not notice.
• Unconsciously Pinkey's hand sought his eyebrows, as he laughed hollowly.
• Impatiently I sought you: and am glad To have encounter'd you thus readily.