SEEK in a Sentence

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For SEEK, below is one of 337 sentences:
Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEEK
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seek
 v.  make an effort to; try to get; try to discover
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  When I found this, I resolved to quit the place that I had hitherto inhabited, to seek for one where the few wants I experienced would be more easily satisfied.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  But I did not believe my errors to be irretrievable, and after much consideration I resolved to return to the cottage, seek the old man, and by my representations win him to my party.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
7  I was overcome by gloom and misery and often reflected I had better seek death than desire to remain in a world which to me was replete with wretchedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
8  You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  He wished me to seek amusement in society.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
10  In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened; my eyes wandered round the room as if to seek something that I had lost.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
11  Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
13  Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
15  I shall seek this man, as I have sought truth in books: as I have sought gold in alchemy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
16  When the symptoms persisted, I decided to seek medical help.
17  If the symptoms persist, seek medical advice.
18  Our mission is to seek out the enemy and destroy them.
19  Canadians seek enlistment in the US Marines because they don't see as much opportunity in the Canadian armed forces.
20  The President must seek to regain the high ground in the political debate.
21  The number of people in the catchment area of the resource centre who now seek residential care has dropped dramatically.
22  We thought it advisable to seek police assistance.
23  Haig tended not to seek guidance from subordinates.
24  The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
25  They were forced to seek refuge from the fighting.
26  Gentlemen seek harmony but not uniformity.
27  Nothing seek, nothing find.
28  I will seek from my doctor's advice.
29  Love does not come to those who seek it , but to those who give love.
30  Drivers are advised to seek alternative routes.