SOUGHT in a Sentence

Learn SOUGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
248 example sentences for SOUGHT, such as:
1. Her wet green eyes sought his helplessly.
2. His eyes sought her lips and lingered there a moment.
3. His black eyes sought her face and traveled to her lips.
4. Scarlett's bleeding fingers sought her father's hand urgently.
5. Many have sought to fathom the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SOUGHT
sought
 a.  being searched for
 a.  that is looked for
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His dread was so strong that, man-like, he sought to postpone certainty.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  In the agitation caused by the gravity of her announcement he sought a consolatory short cut.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  His black eyes sought her face and traveled to her lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Her eyes sought his face quickly and with joy, wondering if he meant that leaving her was breaking his heart, even as it was breaking hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  In its pain it had sought human companionship and help and it made no threatening gesture as she looped one end of the torn petticoat about its horns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Scarlett's bleeding fingers sought her father's hand urgently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Mammy's quick old eyes sought hers with suspicion and question but her curiosity went unsatisfied.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  His eyes sought her lips and lingered there a moment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  Her wet green eyes sought his helplessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  And finally she decided that, because he had little to do besides gamble and had few enough nice friends in Atlanta, he sought her out solely for companionship's sake.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  He sought out Mrs. Elsing to make this donation and embarrassedly begged that she keep his gift a secret, knowing very well that this would spur her to spreading the news.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  Now she knew the haven she had sought in dreams, the place of warm safety which had always been hidden from her in the mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
14  Her eyes sought his once more, and she smiled inwardly at the tinge of apprehension that she read in them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
15  She "went through" the linen and blankets in the precise spirit of the penitent exploring the inner folds of conscience; she sought for moths as the stricken soul seeks for lurking infirmities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  The refugees sought asylum from religious persecution in a new land.
2  The scarecrow sought to attain one goal: he wished to obtain a brain.
3  They attacked the victory they sought - to mar the election.
4  In our debate, I mentioned the example of the more than $3 million he sought for a new projector at a planetarium in his hometown.
5  The members of the mysterious Far Eastern cult sought to kill the British explorer because they saw him profane the sanctity of their holy goblet by using it as an ashtray. .
6  I undressed hastily, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
7  In the appendix to the novel, the editor sought to annotate many of the author's more esoteric references.
8  The lawyers sought to examine the books of the defunct corporation.
9  Many have sought to fathom the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa.
10  The relatives who received little or nothing sought to invalidate the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he had signed the document.
11  Not content merely to palliate the patient's sores and cankers, the researcher sought a means of wiping out the disease.
12  A firm believer in the maxim "Divide and conquer," the evil emperor sought to disrupt the cohesion of the federation of free nations.
13  She sought solitude, and avoided us when in gaiety and unrestrained affection we met in a family circle.
14  Knowing the importance of appearing resolute, the patriots sought to present a monolithic front.
15  Like many others who sought divine guidance from the oracle at Delphi, Oedipus could not understand the enigmatic oracular warning he received.