Sought is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOUGHT in dictionary:

VERB:
• SEEK, to go in search of
• attempt to find (something)
• attempt or desire to obtain or achieve (something)
• ask for (something) from someone
• search for and find someone or something
• go to (a place)
ADJECTIVE:
• that is looked for
• being searched for
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• imp. & p. p. of Seek.
• past tense of seek

Words related to SOUGHT

seek8 seeking12 seeks9

Words that contain SOUGHT

besought14 resought12 unsought12 unbesought16

How to use SOUGHT in a sentence

• They always treated me with courtesy, however, and sought to make my visits agreeable.
• The subordinate insurgents sought safety as they could.
• What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave.
• The correspondent called me and sought an explanation for the delay.
• Her people sought safety in deceiving the Portuguese with the story that they were returning from a voyage in Atlantic waters only, and thus they succeeded in buying food.
• It was not long after her arrival in London in the commencement of October, that she attained the certainty she sought.
• Richards had sought so long in vain, and for whom Murdock, the wicked father, was seeking still for aught she knew to the contrary.
• I swear by God! Better for you is what He possesseth than the things ye yourselves possess and the things ye have sought and are now seeking in this vain and empty life.
• Unfortunately I sought the nearest excitement, by going to the table and beginning to play.
• Concluding, therefore, without going to them, that he was relieved, he sought his resting-place and was soon fast asleep.
• I had never sought her help, and but rarely heard her name.
• But an example of its use was long sought for in vain among the primitive races of the world.
• He sought gold for the romance of it, he sought it because adventure lay in the track of virgin gold as it lies nowhere else.
• As soon as he perceived me, supposing that I sought him in his professional capacity, he seized hold of me in a paroxysm of delight, and was an eagerness to begin the work.
• When bound to the stake he turned his face from the crucifix that was held before him, and sought to kiss the fagots.
• Peter died, and then his heirs, to please the king, who desired to do Stanislaus an injury, sought to have the land restored to them.
• They could in case of need make out that it was a case of assault, where one man had sought the life of another.
• And it was in vain that the governor sought to stem the onward progress of the tide of revolution.
• The house was surrounded, two blacks that sought to defend him were killed on the spot, and he was dragged from his bed and taken to the coast.
• On the following day, taking rooms at the nearest hotel and having been made comfortable, my husband sought his relatives.
• He never waited for opportunities, but sought them.
• Panting and hot I sought the shade, and flung myself onto my deck chair again.
• Here was the cold water he had sought, and she put it against his forehead and drenched the wounded shoulder with it.
• But when she sat down with her pen, confronting him and not what she sought to do for him, her heart sank.
• The ranks were soon filled with picked men from all sides, and ardent, ambitious officers from every corps of the army sought commands.
• The termination of the commercial treaty of 1862 between the United States and Turkey has been sought by that Government.

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