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sought

/sawt/US // sɔt //UK // (sɔːt) //

寻求,寻求的,寻找,寻找的

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : simple past tense and past participle of seek.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • For a while yoga and pilates classes were sought out at luxury gyms like Equinox.

  • Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.

  • Where the U.S. once sought to train several divisions worth, the latest effort is for just 3,000 troops.

  • On Friday, the story had looked like it might blow over as Buckingham Palace sought to dismiss it as a “civil case.”

  • Two and a half millennia ago, Siddhartha Gautama sought enlightenment.

  • Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?

  • He had not estimated that if Jean Baptiste sought his wife secretly, it must have been because he wished to avoid him.

  • The purchasers found that this claim was not well founded, and sought to recover their money.

  • He also states that the Audiencia is virtually non-existent, and so there is no high court in which justice may be sought.

  • There are five general heads under which the characteristics to be sought may be grouped.