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Example sentences for: motives

How can you use “motives” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

There was no real effort to ascertain their motives or the truth of the generalizations they offered.
He stresses, however, that The motives themselves may be explicit or subconscious, but their conjunction at a given moment is normally unpremeditated.
Had the subjunctive been invoked, these mysterious motives would have vanished in a trice.
Comment has instead tended to focus on familial betrayal, dubious motives, and the moral sink that is the memoir today.
What's worse is that she offers the defense an alternative explanation, by using her own motives and calculations to connect the dots.