6 sentences with 'seeking'
Example sentences and phrases with the word seeking and other words derived from it.
• « In 1974, disappointed that they had not had a child of their own, Julie and Blake decided to adopt two children; they applied to an agency seeking homes for Vietnam War orphans. »
• « Thus, Isabella of Spain was not alone in financing explorers seeking to reach the East by easier routes when she supplied Columbus with her ships and sailors. »
• « Both men and women of very humble origins sometimes rose to prominence, and made a healthy living, at Versailles by serving as go-betweens for elites seeking royal positions in the bureaucracy. »
• « Instead of seeking to directly expand the country's infrastructure, the Qajar state handed out "concessions" to European banks, companies and individuals to build railways, issue bank notes and, in one notorious case, monopolise the production and sale of tobacco. »