Sentence examples for seeking when from inspiring English sources

Friends said escape seemed to be what Mr. Gaxiola was seeking when he arrived in Michoacán.

Such drama and conflict was not really what Allen had been seeking when he took up the drums.

The laid-back life that people were seeking when they moved to the region is quickly disappearing, residents said.

– Glenn Collins The New York Post: "Durability and predictability" — not quite what you'd expect snackers are seeking when they reach for a salty fix.

What some people are seeking when they use online suicide forums is not just support, but also a safe space where they can find solace and understanding.

Svoboda said tonight that Rucinsky's asking price had dropped considerably from the $2.9 million he was seeking when negotiations broke off during training camp.

But she continued to live her life in the media, so there were cries of attention-seeking when Jade was photographed leaving hospital in a wheelchair.

But something more "global" appears to be at work, and in any case he is distracted from his dreary rounds of diagnosis-seeking when a more urgent tragedy befalls the family.

With this bonus prize on the table, Valmont sets about his business, eventually adding the seduction of the young Cecile to his full plate of pleasure-seeking when he grows irritated at her mother's interventions in his plans to seduce Madame de Tourvel.

So, in the grand scheme of wacko theological attention-seeking, when Don Julian was run out of the barrios for preaching to venerate Christ by decorating a secluded island with creepy dolls, he was actually being pretty reasonable.

To seek the possible origin of risk-seeking when there is no apparent benefit, we asked whether the stochastic process of evolution itself, operating over many generations, would show a preference for high or low risk in a "fair" match-up in which the expected number of offspring of each organism was unaltered by taking the risk.