How to Use seek in a Sentence

seek

verb
  • The prince is seeking a wife.
  • Snakes seek the sun to warm their bodies.
  • He sought revenge for his son's murder.
  • You should visit your doctor and seek his advice.
  • The church is seeking donations.
  • The office is seeking a salesperson.
  • During the war, she sought asylum in Spain.
  • They sought refuge in Canada.
  • The company is seeking new ways to improve service.
  • You should seek medical help immediately if you experience any chest pain or shortness of breath.
  • How the Russians seek to take care of it is up to them.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2022
  • This time, the Padres will seek to at least match the Dodgers’ firepower.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • With Starship, SpaceX seeks to buck the old way of doing things.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The scope of that work led the task force on Saturday to decide to seek more time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Lee and his allies sought the restoration—not the reimagining—of the South.
    — Made By History, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Now, those who seek to leave Earth's surface simply must have the means to pay for it.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Death then seeks vengeance, since none of the students were supposed to survive the crash.
    — Keith Langston, People.com, 17 May 2025
  • Ars Video Now, Firefly finds itself at the top of the pack of firms seeking to gain a foothold at the Moon.
    — Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Chemists in the 1700s sought to deem alchemy a pseudoscience.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 July 2024
  • The job of speaker of the House could soon be seeking candidates – again.
    — Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
  • Driving the news: People facing the heat can seek respite in cool zones throughout the area.
    — Andrew Keatts, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Banning books from being taught in schools can lead readers to seek out the book in droves.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The strategy does not seek to cut people off from drug use.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The planned Saks-Neiman Marcus merger seeks to wrest back some control.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • With any luck, though, there’s still time to decipher what happened, and to seek solace in the telling.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Kevin Ellis objected that the city did not seek bids for the contract.
    — Alex Groth, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Bills to watch:These bills seek to protect the environment and Hoosiers' health.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Their agenda is to seek out the truth, and that may not always please everybody.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • In fact, they can be seen as a fresh start and the perfect day of the week to seek out new opportunities.
    — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But Boyer, 24, is now seeking to reverse that trend with her language teaching robot, the SkoBot.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025

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