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53 example sentences for QUEST, such as:

1. Nothing will stop them in their quest for truth.
2. They are using a new prospecting method to quest for oil.
3. Man will suffer many disappointments in his quest for truth.
4. The team will continue its quest for Olympic gold this afternoon.
5. They have been questing for a new method of language teaching for years.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
quest
 n.  act of searching for something
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  With the small competence he possessed, eked out by such employment as he could pick up, he travelled from town to town through the United States in quest of his enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  They heard the doors of rooms above, opening and shutting as Sissy went from one to another in quest of her father; and presently they heard voices expressing surprise.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  This accomplished, the loyal Cedric hastened in quest of his friend Athelstane, determined, at every risk to himself, to save that last scion of Saxon royalty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Now she hoped for some beneficial change; and, after a period of nothing-saying amongst the party, some of them did decide on going in quest of tea.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  Now it was clear to me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious to her than what we are in quest of.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
6  This is the man whom we now learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
7  To me at least there was a strange contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this sinister quest upon which we were engaged.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8  I left Sir Henry behind, therefore, not without some prickings of conscience, and drove off upon my new quest.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
9  I could read in them a set purpose to devote his life to this quest until the client whom he had failed to save should at last be avenged.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
10  For two hours, with most intense concentration, Holmes examined every object in turn, but his face showed that his quest was not a successful one.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
11  "I fear there is some dark ending to our quest," said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
12  It was evident to me that things were not going well with him or his quest.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
13  Despair seized him at the thought of her setting out alone to renew the weary quest for work.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  The future stretched before her dull and bare as the deserted length of Fifth Avenue, and opportunities showed as meagrely as the few cabs trailing in quest of fares that did not come.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
15  She had insisted that in the belated quest of these work-stained women was an aspiration which ought to stir her tears.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  The team will continue its quest for Olympic gold this afternoon.
2  Nothing will stop them in their quest for truth.
3  My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience.
4  The United States is in the van of the quest to establish contact with beings from the beyond.
5  They are using a new prospecting method to quest for oil.
6  Man will suffer many disappointments in his quest for truth.
7  The sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.
8  Everyone knows that bees buzz around flowers in their quest for nectar; but scientists have now learned that flowers are buzzing right back - with electricity.
9  They have been questing for a new method of language teaching for years.
10  Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul.