Sentence examples for had been quest from inspiring English sources

Mr. Samuels would not say whether the other companies had been Quest customers.

The dead may have been quest-givers or traders, but we'll never know.

The people of China have been questing for democracy for more than 100 years.

Another artificial-intelligence maverick, Ben Goertzel, has been questing for what he calls (borrowing the phrase from Mark Gubrud) "artificial general intelligence".

"That probably sounds really strange to you," she says, "but I think it's quite a female thing, when you've been questing after perfection and basing your self-worth on what you look like.

Extended life and health is something humans have been questing after for eternity, but while we were dreaming of playing tennis into our 90s, fiscal social planning hasn't kept up with scientific advancements.

What had been a personal quest turned into a movement, as others followed the same path.

It had been an audacious quest, given that Mississippi's politics were (and are) so deeply influenced by religious conservatives.

Carrying on his family's legacy had been an all-consuming quest.

Now for what had been declared an implausible quest in Berlin tonight.

The trip to Pennsylvania, it seemed, had been a fool's quest.