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Example sentences for: sought

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The Chicano muralists sought to paint the history they knew, a history often based on “oral traditions, legends and myths” (Romo, 136).
His initiative notwithstanding, he has come under fire for letting the Whitman administration undermine what the Pollution Prevention Act sought to achieve.
Each year funding is sought through grants and gifts from individuals.
However, at analgesic doses, opioid receptor agonists or partial agonists can induce unwanted side effects such as ventilatory depression [ 1 2 ] and the development of physical tolerance and dependence [ 3 4 ] . Thus, the search for opioid ligands which possess analgesic effect and lack untoward effects has been a sought after goal of the medical community.
And the Quebec government complained that Anglophone business owners sought to evade the law by having larger French letters on their signs, but in the faintest of colors so they couldn't be seen.