sought

[ sawt ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of seek.

sought

/ sɔːt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of seek

Other Words From

• self-sought adjective
• un·sought adjective

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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