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"Motive" in a Sentence (23 examples)
You may rest assured; I have no ulterior motive in making this donation.
Your motive was admirable, but your action was not.
These days, the motive for marriage is not necessarily pure.
These days, the motive for marriage is not necessarily pure. Take Jennifer for example.
Nobody seemed to have a motive for the murder.
Catherine had an ulterior motive when she urged her father to buy a new car. She hoped that she'd be able to drive it herself.
Now we are better able to understand their motive.
The motive for the murder is not yet known.
Jealousy was the motive for the murder.
Nobody likes to have his true motive doubted.
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there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive.
Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.
“Your job here is to find the good things in your colleagues—the things their state saw—and not focus on the bad.” I said I understand. “And, Joe, never attack another man’s motive, because you don’t know his motive.”
every joint and motive of her body
What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.
“Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. […]”
If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.
What's the motive for tonight, lads?
a motive argument
motive power
In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
Debussy's melody is fractional, fragmentary. But at the core all his music is melodic and melody is its main motive force.
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