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Example sentences for: sought

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The United Irishmen, led by Wolfe Tone, was founded in 1791, a nonsectarian movement that sought the freedom of the Irish people, both Catholic and Protestant.
Albright, Rubin, and other U.S. officials reasserted that distinction, and Defense Department spokesman Ken Bacon pointed out that the other guy started the fight: "This was not a fight that NATO sought.
Tough coureurs de bois sought furs from the Huron in Ontario and Algonquin in Québec, quickly learning language and customs and even marrying into the tribes.
We sought to see if Gleevec can potentiate the cell killing effects of cisplatin, the leading chemotherapeutic drug for almost all advanced cancer patients.
The first line sought to explain interspecific variation in overall sequence composition, and noted correlations between GC content and amino acid content across different species.