Sentence examples for sought from high-quality English sources.

• Putin sought to promote Donald J.

• He sought a coup by misleading people with lies.

• Minorities elsewhere also sought EU funding or legal protection.

• Monchi sought inspiration in England at a time when English clubs sought their own Monchi.

• And the truth is it sought quite a lot of information.

• The last-mile delivery company sought 26 visas for this particular position.

• His invitations for one-on-one lunches were eagerly sought and generously proferred.

• He had another name, too: the Phantom, which stemmed from his record as Italy’s longest-sought fugitive.

Use sought in a sentence.

• Just because they sought out the fruits of the Russian hack doesn’t mean that they were part of the crime.

• Turkey has sought to steer its own course, engaging with other players like Russia and Iran where necessary.

• But organizers, acceding to racists in states needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, sought to isolate Black women.

• Trump has abandoned the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran and sought to impose “maximum pressure” on the government there.

• In the decades that followed, many civil rights leaders sought to achieve greater direct political power by being elected to political office.

• …Socrates in Plato’s dialogue the Phaedrus, however, is itself not unlike the ideal sought by the Sophists in general, Isocrates in particular.

• In the letter, Giuliani claimed to be acting with Trump's full "knowledge and consent" when he sought an audience last May with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president.

• Both totally alone with no one to talk to, Elizabeth has sought solace in her religion and Seamus has sought solace in trying to keep his wife's memory alive.

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• A White House spokesman disputed that characterisation and said that the Trump administration has sought to "improve the relationship with Russia" after the Obama administration "pursued a flawed 'reset' policy that sought engagement for the sake of engagement."

• The initial shock of the allegations – that Trump ordered Mueller’s firing, and then told White House lawyers to conceal that order; that Trump sought to hijack oversight of the Mueller probe; that Trump sought to sway Mueller’s witnesses – soon focused attention on the attorney general, William Barr.

• A commentary on the website of the People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s main newspaper, claimed that the upheavals in Hong Kong were instigated by democratic radicals who had sought support from “anti-China forces” in Britain and the United States, and had sought lessons from independence activists in Taiwan.

• In state parliament on Wednesday, Wyatt said the department met advisers from the PKKP, but not traditional owners, on 19 May and at the end of the meeting the advisers “sought confirmation of their understanding of the section 18 consent order issued for the Brockman mine in 2013, and sought confirmation that such consents cannot be revoked”.