[ UK /sˈə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈsaʊf, ˈsoʊ/ ]
VERB
  1. make a murmuring sound
    the water was purling
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How To Use sough In A Sentence

  • It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
  • These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
  • The court sought to stretch modest finite resources so far as possible to meet the parties' needs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Public history also sought to enhance communication between historians and the general public.
  • The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
  • He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with The Last of the Barons — Complete
  • Home improvements, car purchases, holidays, computers, education and medical expenses are among the areas for loans most sought after by members.
  • The latter, after his defeat by Bayezid, sought refuge at Rhodes under a safe-conduct from the Grand Master and the General Convent of the Order.
  • Iëna then went in advance, and sought the open plain, whereupon the child resembling the mother would cry out and complain, because she disliked an _open_ path. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
  • Loans of photographs and other illustrative items are being sought to accompany the displays of Silsden's old industries.
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