Miss Penniman had been "actuated by a sudden desire to see once more the beauties of her old home, to look into the faces of the old friends who had followed her career with such pardonable pride.
Its sensibility ought to be such that it is actuated by a tenth of a milliampere, and, if possible, even by less.
Her aristocratic, thoughtful face gave no sign that any ulterior motive had actuated her evidently very hostile attitude against him.
Turning to Jefferson, he said: "Jefferson, whatever the motives that actuated you, I can only thank you for this warning.
Robespierre was probably actuated by the motives of selfish policy which soon proved the greatest blunder of his life.
In all his undertakings Daubeny was actuated by a practical spirit and a desire for the advancement of knowledge; and his personal influence on his contemporaries was in keeping with the high character of his various literary productions.
The peasantry of Ireland are actuatedby motives entirely different from those affecting the rural constituencies of England.
Parnell was actuated by what might fairly be called patriotism; that is, comparatively speaking.
He said, "They were actuated by so much philanthropy.
Thus therefore are the two great mighties set forth before us, who are the heads of those two bodies; and thus are these two bodies set before us, who are to be actuated by these two spirits.
Had the Torgouths been actuated by any other motive than that of wishing to submit sincerely to me, they would be without support on either side; they would be between two fires.
Her ladyship had now come down to her country house, leaving London and all its charms before the end of the season, actuated by various motives.
Mr. Benjamin did not suppose that Miss Greystock was actuated simply by a desire to have her old bills paid by her future husband.
She was sharp enough to understand, or at any rate suspicious enough to believe, that Mr. Mopus would be actuated by no other desire in the matter than that of running up a bill against her.
It was hardly conscience or a grand spirit of truth that actuated her, as much as a want of the courage needed for lying.
It was thankfully received, and understood quite in the spirit which had actuated me in forming it.
The motives assigned to my actions were not those which actuated me, so far as I could tell; and the consciousness of being misjudged made me really what I had been believed to be before, a thoroughly naughty boy.
There will be those who think me wrong from the Beginning; and were I actuated by their Sentiments only, I should agree with them.
That these, or something like these, were among the chief motives whereby Mr. Mackenzie was actuated in establishing The Colonial Advocate seems tolerably certain.
Previous to his arrival in this country Mr. Thorpe had never been remarkable for any specially liberal opinions, but he was a man of enlightened mind, and actuated by an honest desire to do his duty.
Now, in all this there can be no doubt that Mr. Gourlay was from first to last chiefly actuated by genuine philanthropy.
It is certain, too, that he was in the main actuatedby upright and honourable motives.
The motives whichactuated these reactionists were neither new nor doubtful.
If I had not been actuatedby such a feeling I should, as usual, have gone to old Anderson.
After all, she has my welfare sincerely at heart, and, although mistaken in the means of securing it, I cannot but feel that she is actuated solely by her love for me.
I believe, however, that, like most people, I was actuated by my own feelings toward my mother, who had treated me so unkindly.
At the supreme moment of danger, money, only money, was the motive which actuated him.
The passage of these sky-scrapers is actuated by no puny manoeuvre of ours.
And that it is a supernatural, powerful principle, sent from God into your hearts, even the Holy Ghost, by which you are inclined and actuated in the tenor of your lives.
When you meditate of any grace, think on it as a part of the image of God, implanted and actuated by the Holy Ghost, to advance the soul into communion with God, and prepare it for him.
Santos-Dumont was just such a boy, and he spent much time in setting miniature balloons afloat, and in launching tiny air-ships actuatedby twisted rubber bands.
It must be said for her that although her curiosity was greatly aroused, she was actuated chiefly by her affection for Percy, and the desire to rescue him from any trouble into which he might have fallen.
Nor was he wholly actuated by the jealousy of proprietorship, for he knew the devotion with which Antony regarded Queen Mary, and did not wholly trust him.
Together with the overwhelming sense of grief and consternation that had spread throughout the country, was the eager desire to know what motives had actuated the assassin in his terrible deed.
From the beginning to the end of the controversy he so much deplored, the President was never for one moment actuated by any motive of gain to himself or of loss to others.
In its preparation Mr. Brooks has not been actuated by a desire to merely make a readable book for boys, he has given it the attention which the subject demands as a part of the history of the country.
The Court was ruled by three men, all of whom were actuated by different motives.
The settlers again recommenced their conjectures, and discussed the motives which must have actuated the Don to make a false entry, to record having received money which he never got.
Land was the discussion, but there seemed no dissenting voice as to the Don's culpability, and the sinister motives which actuated him in acting in that underhand manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actuated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animated; inclined; minded; motivated; moved; stimulated
