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Example sentences for "seeking"

Lexicographically close words:
seekers; seekes; seekest; seeketh; seekin; seeks; seekst; seel; seelie; seeling
  1. Then he said, seeking my gaze, "I am to blame; I have too much considered thy chances of worldly gain.

  2. Seeking Monica through the galleries, he saw her at length--sitting side by side with that man Barfoot.

  3. Later, he took the wrong path, seeking to oppose her instincts, to reform her mind, eventually to become her lord and master.

  4. Scarcely less shy than in girlhood, she walked with a quick, ungainly movement as if seeking to escape from some one, her head bent forward.

  5. The aggregation of the currents run in streams over terrace after terrace, spread out to the width of hundreds of feet, painting them all, and then seeking the Gardiner River, flowing through a deep gorge in front of the formation.

  6. Be seeking thy shelter, O high-souled one, I shall enjoy unrivalled prosperity.

  7. Kshatranjaya and Kshatradeva and Kshatravarman and Manada, those heroic sons of Dhrishtadyumna, O, who resisted them, seeking to keep them away from Drona?

  8. The genius of the two languages being entirely different, I give the sense of the first line of 14 separately, without seeking to connect it, in the assertive form, with the second half of 13.

  9. Burning with grief on account of the death of his son, endeavouring to achieve a most difficult feat, and even now seeking to slaughter Jayadratha, alas, he that hath made that vow, viz.

  10. Thou shouldst rather rebuke thy own self, since thou didst not take care of thyself (when seeking to injure another).

  11. Innumerable rulers of earth, seeking to do what is agreeable to us, and who have of their own well sided with us with their forces and followers, also protect them.

  12. Their leader himself was in great pain, for Duhsasana, greatly afflicted by those shafts, overcome by fear entered with his division the Sakata array, seeking Drona as his deliverer.

  13. And Drona also, accompanied by his forces, desirous of protecting his own array, battled with the Parthas, seeking glory.

  14. When they finally adjourned after a silent prayer that marked with growing power the Divine Presence, they went away discussing earnestly their difficulties and seeking light from one another.

  15. He had, throughout, spoken in a mild, apologetic tone, almost as if he were one of the congregation seeking for light on a very difficult subject.

  16. Schumann took his departure from the Paganini caprices, seeking to perform upon the piano the same kind of effect which Paganini had obtained from the violin, or to discover others equivalent to them.

  17. He could not bear to hear the sound of a trumpet, and upon his father seeking to overcome his nervousness by having a trumpet blown in the room, it threw him into convulsions.

  18. His last years were spent in rural life near St. Petersburgh, busy with new opera projects, and especially seeking some rational manner of harmonizing the Russian popular songs.

  19. Thus the musical establishment at Weimar became a sort of Mecca, to which all the musicians of the world gathered, especially the young and energetic in the pursuit of knowledge, and creative artists seeking a hearing or fresh inspiration.

  20. He senses at once the request and the earnest purpose of these men seeking Him out.

  21. It reminds one of that other man, under similar conditions though less intense, at an earlier stage, cautiously seeking a night interview.

  22. Now the trailers of hate come seeking with torch and lantern, soldiers and officers, chief priests and rulers, the ever present rabble, and in the lead the shameless traitor.

  23. They are pushing their quest now, seeking Jesus in the hiding whence He had gone days before[122] led by the man who knew His accustomed haunts.

  24. At the arrest He walks frankly out to meet those seeking Him, and restrains them in that strangely powerful way till He was quite ready.

  25. Doctors are also seeking not only to prevent disease but to find new ways of treating it.

  26. Thousands have come to America, seeking a poor living at the lowest wages because at home there was no chance to earn even the little they require.

  27. The flicker or gold-winged woodpecker lives largely on ants, of which he eats immense quantities, seeking them not only in the trees but on the ground.

  28. Seeking for partial remedies, it must insist on the avoidance of all expenses not absolutely indispensable, and the suppression of all superfluous offices.

  29. Her ecstasies and miracles were spread abroad by Juan de Longas, by the Prior of Lerma, by the Provincial of the Order, Juan de la Vega, and by the leading frailes, who found their account in the crowds of devotees seeking her intercession.

  30. The Suprema was also diligent in seeking to recover the amounts which the tribunals had been obliged to invest in Government securities, but this was as fruitless as other attempts to save fragments of the wreck.

  31. Yet in 1816 we find it reduced to seeking a loan wherewith to meet the salaries and a sum of thirteen thousand reales demanded by the Suprema.

  32. Fray Miguélez is an Augustinian, seeking to vindicate St. Augustin and his Order from Jesuit attacks.

  33. Yet the character of the penalties shows that solicitation was the real gravamen, over which the tribunal was seeking indirectly to acquire jurisdiction.

  34. Of these the inquisitors threw out three as "impertinent" and the answers to the others were, to a considerable extent, unsatisfactory, as was almost inevitable under a system which made the accused grope blindly in seeking evidence.

  35. We cannot forget, and the peace we are seeking Can only be won at the end of life.

  36. When seeking one purpose, and serving one end; But I think it is wiser to just sit still, And accept whatever the gods may send.

  37. I leave the house, and walk the lighted street; And mingle with the pleasure-seeking throng.

  38. During the 'sixties and 'seventies Egypt became the happy hunting-ground of self-seeking financiers, to whose schemes Ismail fell an easy and a willing prey.

  39. Three days afterward, the officer who had been the occasion of this barbarity became convinced of his injustice, and, seeking Morgan in the camp hospital, implored his forgiveness.

  40. This she crossed safely and without meeting any of the rude warriors she so greatly feared, and five minutes later the daughter of the charcoal-burner was seeking admittance at the back door of Queen Cor's palace.

  41. The warriors were swarming over the palace like bees in a hive, seeking anyone who might be in hiding, and after the search had been prolonged for some time the leader asked impatiently: "Do you find anyone else?

  42. She does not tarry, but hurries on like one seeking for something yet to come.

  43. A hard-featured man, whose sullen glance travels quickly about the place, comes next; he seems seeking for some one to welcome him, and is abashed to find himself alone among unheeding strangers.

  44. I have done seeking for that or anything else that is good," I said, despondently.

  45. But I have what is, I fear, a morbid terror of seeking the confidence of others.

  46. But I am reading it with a sort of avidity, like one seeking after hid treasure.

  47. The idea of seeking holiness had never so much as crossed my mind.

  48. She raised her eyes, which had been lowered, and looked at me long and deeply--so long and deeply that it seemed as if she were seeking something within myself of which even I was unconscious.

  49. In seeking to give money had I, in reality, sacrificed the ability to give the things that she valued far more?

  50. There's no pleasure in being careful, and I'm seeking pleasure," she answered.

  51. Well, my success has cost me dear, but it has cured me for ever of seeking out similar adventures.

  52. The ground was damp, so it was no use seeking a more sheltered place.

  53. They had returned, via Barrow, and were bound further south, so far seeking work and finding none.

  54. Is there even at the back an organised system, seeking victims and preying on them?

  55. These were the only ones we got to know intimately; a sorrowful woman with a sickly-looking child, who came overnight, were seeking admission to the workhouse that morning.

  56. Besides, a man may not return to the tramp ward, after seeking work, for another night.

  57. I was supposed to have arrived in London and to be seeking a night's shelter.

  58. Numerous letters, from various persons and quarters, attest the general interest, marked in many cases by feeling and personal gratitude seeking to express itself.

  59. And yet there are two principles which all these philosophers teach: the first is justice; and the second is the duty of seeking the general welfare.

  60. Although a poor speaker, and rather shunning than seeking society, he had such influence over those about him that no President has ever so dominated the two Houses of Congress.

  61. Toward France, indeed, he showed remarkable tenderness, because that power controlled Spain, from which Jefferson was eagerly seeking the cession of West Florida.

  62. I confess that I had never thought of seeking the materialization of an inanimate object.

  63. His lifelong habit of seeking to know the unknowable, re-enforced by the detective instinct that is developed in every good lawyer as well as newspaper man, made him unnaturally anxious to solve the mystery.

  64. The old ladies had rushed, side by side, into the very center of those who were seeking them.

  65. Perhaps, in order not to appear seeking credit for a courage, or rather a coolness, which the reader may conceive I exaggerate, I may be pardoned if I pause to indulge in one or two egotistical remarks.

  66. I thought you were seeking him--Richard Radford.

  67. Walking resolutely up to one of these little knots, he looked boldly amongst the persons it comprised as if seeking for somebody.

  68. On the one hand, the power of the strongest element in social organization is always seeking to enlarge the province of the state.

  69. Every desire is always seeking its own gratification or satisfaction.

  70. It is modified and hedged about by customs and habits but, like all instincts, its strength is always seeking ways to accomplish results regardless of the rules laid down and thus urging their violation.

  71. These men have refused to follow down the beaten path; they strayed into the wilderness seeking new and better ways.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seeking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.