8 sentences with 'sought'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sought and other words derived from it.
• « The Model T was exactly what the restless American population needed as it sought to span an entire continent. »
• « Ford's pastor sought to explain the surprising transformations taking place in him. He commented that it was as if the inventor of the assembly line had not yet put himself together. »
• « To toughen him up, Henry sought to follow Emerson's advice, and turned his son's life into an endless series of emotional outbursts, in which he took from him with one hand what he seemed to give him with the other. »
• « In addition to New Kingdom expansionism, governments sought new forms of monumental architecture. »
• « They were often at war with Egypt, which also sought to take advantage of the fall of the Assyrians to seize new lands, but even when the two powers were at war Egyptian traders were still welcome throughout the Neo-Babylonian empire. »
• « A tradition of prophets, later remembered as the Prophetic Movement, emerged among certain individuals who sought to represent the poorest and most beleaguered members of the community, calling for a return to the more communal and egalitarian society of the past. »
• « The games sought, in the words of one Greek poet, "either the crown of victory or death" (admittedly, that poet indulged in some hyperbole, since there is no evidence that defeated athletes actually committed suicide). »