(v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
(v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.
(v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
(v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) David first sough psychological help at Oxford when, miserably unhappy, he was introduced by his friend Charles Collins to the psychiatrist and Freudian psychoanalyst RD Gillespie.
(2) No commitment has been given to release the much-sough-tafter business case or the contract itself once it is signed.
(3) Evidence for selective extravasation of thoracic duct lymph-borne cells, derived from rats with adjuvant disease, within joints of normal or adjuvant arthritic recipients was sough by adoptive transfer of radiolabeled cells.
(4) It is of the greatest simplicity, and it is sough by asking the subject to follow the finger of the examiner.
Sought
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Seek
() imp. & p. p. of Seek.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(2) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(3) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(4) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(5) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(6) Most initially sought the advanced degree in an attempt to gain greater patient involvement (43%).
(7) An expression of clinical applicability is sought for quantitating the availability of oxygen to the tissue from the blood.
(8) Critical information may necessarily have to be sought outside these limits for diagnostic purposes as well as successful treatment of family disease.
(9) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(10) Otolaryngologists have long sought to identify causes of sensorineural hearing loss that might be reversed by medical treatment.
(11) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(12) The money will initially be sought from governments.
(13) The presence or absence of the heterophile transplantation antigen was sought in renal tissue from stillborn infants, primary cell cultures, and several organs from adult human cadavers.
(14) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(15) Therefore, we have sought to define the mechanism of peripheral MPP+ toxicity in the rat and mouse.
(16) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(17) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(18) We therefore sought to determine whether doxorubicin in the presence of NADH dehydrogenase and the transition metal ions Fe(III) or Cu(II) induces DNA base modifications in isolated human chromatin.
(19) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(20) The 27 women who were interviewed had sought prenatal care early, late or not at all.