English example sentences with "seek"

Learn how to use seek in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Some Blacks seek more radical solutions.

And they would play hide and go seek.

Now you have come of age, you should seek a living for yourself.

Everybody has the right to seek happiness.

We must seek after the true, the good and the beautiful.

We seek happiness.

People seek escape from the heat of the town.

Seek, and you will find.

He decided to seek information elsewhere.

He makes himself accessible to all who seek his counsel.

They vote in secret, may seek public office, and may demand the removal of public officials who behave improperly.

The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil.

Human beings, whether they realise it or not, continually seek happiness.

"Risk money" refers to funds placed in investments that seek high-return, although high-risk, investments.

This victory alone is not the change we seek.

To those who seek peace and security: We support you.

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

To those who seek peace and security. We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright, tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.

Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

There are those, who, in distress, seek the help of other people's prayers, but have no mind to pray for themselves.

Believe those who seek truth, beware those who find it.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

My grandfather went to the hospital to seek help for his stomach pain.

Hide and seek / I count to three / Winter has come

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

It might be worthwhile to seek advice from your doctor.

He would seek re-election.

Seek truth from facts.

Magic words and incantations are as fatal to our science as they are to any other. Methods, when classified and separated, acquire their true bearing and perspective as a means to an end, not as ends in themselves. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

I seek my own truth.

The friends of truth are those who seek it, not those who boast about having found it.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

I knew where to seek.

Did you seek out the stripes last night?

Some Whites seek more imperial solutions.

Some Asians seek more technological solutions.

Some Middle-Easterners seek more religious solutions.

I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that the United States and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

To those who seek peace and security. We support you. And to all those who have wondered if the beacon of the United States still burns as bright, tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

He often needs to seek solace in places near water.

Life is too short to seek perfection in material things.

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

If you live to seek revenge, better dig a grave for two.

Many people easily understand the injustice of the current language situation in the world where English dominates. But they also see the collective advantages, as for example a relatively good and direct communication between intellectuals and leaders of different languages through the English language, and the personal advantages as their own knowledge of the English language. About a neutral language such as Esperanto, one does not know much and does not seek information.

I have it on good authority that the president will not seek reelection.

Let's play hide and seek.

Seek peace and pursue it.

I don't need gold, I only seek the ultimate truth.

Seek shelter in a fortified, windowless room, preferably underground.

Perhaps you will seek his aid.

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

Do you want to play hide and seek?

When I was a kid, we used to play hide and seek quite a lot.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

What do you seek, human?

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

Some people, looking at the bright Sun, seek for stains only.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Wise men do not seek to gain anything, so they lose nothing.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

We must support the Lebanese who have marched and bled for democracy, and the Israelis and Palestinians who seek a secure and lasting peace.

If you seek his monument, look around.

Goats do not like getting wet and will seek shelter quicker than sheep and other livestock.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

He's the type of man who'd rather crochet potholders than seek adventure.

We were the most disgraced of people, and Allah granted us honor with Islam. No matter how much we seek honor in other than that which Allah honored us with, Allah shall disgrace us

The atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

What do you seek?

I've told him before that the best solution for him is to seek out actual friends who will console him when he needs emotional support, instead of broadcasting on Fig Hunter, for reasons everyone should know by now. He already has his introvert site! Why should he feel the need to keep talking about his feelings on Fig Hunter when he already knows what will come of it? I understand that he considers Fig Hunter his "home", and the members therein his "guests". However, Pseudo didn't conduct himself as the most gracious host, either. He argued with people and openly called them names. Whether or not he is justified in doing so is irrelevant. What matters is that he doesn't have the time to be doing things like this. Talking back at these people is a complete waste of his time, when he could and should be working on his games or art or studying for university.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

This is the perfect place for those who seek a quiet vacation.

Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.

What kind of treasure do you seek?

We seek their input.

We all seek comfort.

Some people prefer conformity, while others seek novelty.

The world would be a great deal better if men, in their greed, did not seek to snatch every thing for themselves, instead of leaving something as a thankoffering to the giver of the blessings.

'What are you doing here, friend?' asked the stranger; 'darkness is falling fast, and soon the wild beasts will come from their lairs to seek for food.'

Paraphrasing is all well and good as long as you don't have the original sentence in sight when you seek to paraphrase.

Didn't I have a right to seek the happiness I longed for?

You should seek a teacher and learn the method of spiritual practice that is best for you.

You need to seek help.

Tom needs to seek help.

We let you off, on this condition however, that you no longer seek wisdom.

Seek and you shall find, what is unsought will go undetected.

Those who ask will seek the truth.

I do not want to imitate the many who first use up their health to seek money and then use up their money to seek health.

I do not want to imitate the many who first use up their health to seek money and then use up their money to seek health.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

There was a poor farmer who had three sons, and on the same day the three boys went to seek their fortune.

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who claim they have found it.

Believe those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they've found it.

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