Sentence examples for sought in the city from inspiring English sources

Clean needles were highly sought in the city because very few chemists gave them out.

In Manchuria alone, some 500,000 civilians had fled the Communist advance and sought shelter in the city of Changchun.

While a tormented Nietzsche sought comfort in the city's dignity, its arcades are a recurrent motif in the metaphysical paintings of de Chirico.

When your correspondent sought permission in the city of Tangshan for a meeting with someone about a pollution claim against a coking plant, he ended up spending an hour with the police instead, before being asked to leave town.

Recently, the mayor and two supporters on the City Council voted to fire the city manager without public comment and Mayor Weyuker sought changes in the city charter to diminish the manager's position while giving himself more decision-making powers.

On August 29, 2010, a 7-year-old girl (patient 1) with acute febrile syndrome, headache, and abdominal pain sought treatment in the city of Fréjus (Var) 1 day after she had returned from Rajasthan, India.

Urban participants were sought in Aberdeen city and included utilising the opportunity of a hand washing campaign in a shopping mall.

The number of people seeking shelter in the city is at a record high.

If you want work you must seek it in the city," he explains.

Thirty thousand people seek places in the city's shelter system every night.

But just as he seeks protection in the city's anonymity, he is obsessively recording his presence.