Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "sought for"

  • We have already proved that, by these terms, royal power and dominion are designated, and that, for this reason, the beginning of the fulfilment cannot be sought for in any period previous to the time of David.

  • But its final fulfilment must be sought for only in the Messianic time.

  • Tradition has rightly perceived that the valley of Jehoshaphat can be sought for only in the immediate vicinity of the temple.

  • The reason must, on the contrary, be sought for in the name.

  • Although the whole both of Judah and Israel had returned, the real and final fulfilment could not be sought for in that event.

  • They were scattering the living members which must be viewed whole with all their movements, and at last must be sought for by the reader in his own mind.

  • But I am of opinion that the true cause of their superiority must not be sought for in physical advantages, but that it is wholly attributable to their moral and intellectual qualities.

  • In France this security is sought for in powers exercised by the heads of the administration; in America it is sought for in the principle of election.

  • He resigned to the two astronomers whom I have named the investigation of the stars in the northern hemisphere, and he sought for himself a field hitherto almost entirely unworked.

  • Gradually it became clear to the perception of this consummate mathematician, not only that the difficulties in the movements of Uranus could be thus explained, but that no other explanation need be sought for.

  • The unknown body must therefore be a planet which would have to be sought for by telescopic aid.

  • D'Artagnan had run, sword in hand, through all the neighboring streets, but had found nobody resembling the man he sought for.

  • I became very pale; I felt my legs fail me; I sought for a reply, but could find none-I was silent.

  • And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

  • Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

  • But all these opinions seem to have a common origin; they all, in fact, sought for a cause of forms as though the form were of itself brought into being.

  • Although those things which are beyond man's knowledge may not be sought for by man through his reason, nevertheless, once they are revealed by God, they must be accepted by faith.

  • The reason for the predestination of some, and reprobation of others, must be sought for in the goodness of God.

  • Accordingly props must be sought for to support society and keep it going while it is made independent of the natural condition from which it is sought to emancipate it.

  • Only this limitation ought rather to let itself be sought for than be imposed violently.

  • It must therefore be sought for by a process of abstraction, and it ought to be deduced from the simple possibility of a nature both sensuous and rational; in short, beauty ought to present itself as a necessary condition of humanity.

  • And the decree being gone forth, the wise men were slain: and Daniel and his companions were sought for, to be put to death.

  • I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and if thou be sought for, thou shalt not be found any more for ever, saith the Lord God.

  • She never, like many writers of religious fiction, caught the spirit of sensationalism that is in the air, or sought for effects in unhealthy portraiture, corrupt style, or unnatural combinations.

  • And joining with you in your prayers, seeking also for myself what I sought for you, I found myself almost startled by such a response as I can not describe.

  • I sought for outcasts; I loved them as outcasts; I knew they would be ungrateful and disobedient, and never love me half as much as I did them; but that made me all the more sorry for them.

  • And when she sate down by his bedside and began to sing: "Far have I sought for thee," he knew her voice at once, and clasped her in his arms.

  • Its effect must be sought for in the descriptions of the hearers.

  • The real roots of the spiritual life of Luther and of the other Reformers ought to be sought for in the family and in the popular religious life of the times.

  • The origin of this art is to be sought for in that of cutting on wood, just as in printing, the use of wooden types led to the adoption of metal.

  • There before him lay what secured to him the prize he sought for, and yet what, for aught he knew, might contain what would render that object a shame and a disgrace.

  • As he spoke, he unclasped a very old and much-worn leather pocket-book, searching through whose pages he at last found what he sought for.

  • While the host thus continued to expatiate on this man's marvellous gifts, Layton fell a-thinking whether this might not be the very spot he sought for, and this the audience before whom he could experiment on as a public speaker.

  • It is hardly probable that the toxicologist will have to look for curarine, unless it has entered the body by means of a wound or by subcutaneous injection; so that in all cases the absorbed poison alone must be sought for.

  • Muscarine itself is not likely to be taken as a poison or administered; but if it is sought for in the fly-blown agaric, or in the tissues or organs of persons who have been poisoned by the fungus, the process of Brieger appears the best.

  • It may happen, however, that in cases of poisoning there is the strongest evidence from symptoms in the person or animal that strychnine alone is to be sought for.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sought for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another woman; another work; being useful; carbon bisulphide; considerable quantity; felt inclined; few more; growing role; labour would; loved thee; miles southeast; national politics; nerve cells; quite know; seems impossible; slightly downy; sought after; sought for; specific gravity; take cover; thrown from; two ounces; weekly newspaper