Sought

Word SOUGHT
Character 6
Hyphenation sought
Pronunciations /sɔːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Sought"

What do we mean by sought?

Preterit and past participle of seek. noun

Imp. & p. p. of seek.

Simple past tense and past participle of seek. verb

Being searched for adjective

That is looked for adjective

To try to find; to look for; to search for.

To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

To attempt, endeavour, try

To navigate through a stream.

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The word "sought" in example sentences

Have you not sought Him often; —sought Him in vain, all through the night; —sought Him in vain at the gate of that old garden where the fiery sword is set? ❋ Unknown (1909)

Rajaratnam's lawyers had asked for a sentence below the term sought by the government, one that was "fair, dispassionate and proportionate." ❋ Unknown (2011)

They said the federal guideline range overstated the seriousness of Rajaratnam's crimes, and called the term sought by the U.S. "grotesquely severe." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The judge said when Butler was convicted that he probably wouldn't impose the term sought by prosecutors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The proponents of the term sought to create a neutral term to include every citizen in the country, very much the same way "British" or "the UK" accommodates the identities of the English, the Scottish, Welsh and others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The five-year declaration alone, the Board observed, has been consistently held to be insufficient when the term sought to be registered is highly descriptive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The best thing that can be said is that if the term sought is not sophisticated in nature you may find a satisfactory definition in this book. ❋ Unknown (1984)

This process ensured that 90-95% of all the acts that recorded the early hip hop records had the art of the stage show down to a science by the time a label sought them out or signed them. ❋ Dart Adams (2007)

A warrant was sought from the FISA Court, but the law did not provide, at the time, for that Court to issue a physical entry warrant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When morning came and a dim light pervaded the lair, he again sought after the source of the remotely familiar sounds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I will bet ANYTHING that, while some folks who have worked the streets for ACORN may very well seek out jobs as census takers, ACORN has not sought, is not seeking and will not seek any formal role in conducting the census. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dave Holloway said he hopes van der Sloot, who is awaiting sentencing, gets a 30-year prison term sought by Peruvian prosecutors. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Throughout his speech, Mr Griffin sought to analogise Choruss with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, the three US-based collective licensing organisations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Manchin sought the most distance from Obama on the Democratic cap and trade bill, which has stalled in Congress and is unpopular in the coal-reliant state. ❋ Aaron Blake (2010)

Meanwhile questions of taste (Cypriot brandy?) andsensitivities arising fromdisproportionate representation, such as for example only a teaspoonful of allspice sought from the Indian Empire, were thankfully offset by sectarian considerations and the tropical climate: Christmas puddings were at this date not high on the agenda of Gandhi, Nehru, or Congress. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Britain sought to maintain a clear monetary line between the problems of the euro and its cherished pound. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As for Hooper, he was busy denying that he once again sought special influence, this time with his old hero Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis. ❋ Michael Conniff (2010)

If the goal being sought is simple – a fact or public personality – then the DM simply sets the DC, with perhaps more knowledge available at higher DCs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I SOUGHT THE [OPINION] OF A [PROFESSIONAL]! ❋ ONE TWO ONE (2011)

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