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"Quest" in a Sentence (24 examples)
They explored the desert in quest of buried treasure.
Gulliver traveled in quest of adventure.
Those books which have made a lasting contribution to man's quest for truth, we call great books.
Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Rawandi, already in the ninth century, held that reason is man's exclusive guide to truth, a quest in which revelation is of no help.
Democracy is a quest, a never-ending seeking for better things, and in the seeking for these things and the striving for better things, and in the seeking for these things and the striving for them, there are many roads to follow.
We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest.
When the term "crusade" is used to refer to a noble quest, the groups who suffered from the original medieval crusades are not happy.
The heroic knight went on a quest to defeat a great monster and won the favor of his lady.
Would you look at that! After a long and exhausting quest I finally managed to find the mythical Scroll of Swordsmanship.
Chinese firms have embarked on a quest to conquer the world market.
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Cease your quest of love.
Everything I have done pales in comparison to what I am about to achieve. I am on a quest... a quest for the most revered icon in Klingon history. An icon that predates the Klingon Empire, an icon more sacred than the Torch of G'boj -- More revered than Sabak's armor, and more coveted than the Emperor's crown!
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
At the same time, players are not forced to complete quests in a certain order; they're allowed enough free will within the game to determine their goals and needs.
to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
To 'cide this title is impanneled A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]
Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...
However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^([sic]) uses, and got ten out of ten on it!
Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.
Most outcomes were assessed with 10 min, single-page, five-question quizzes/tests (“quests”) given at the beginning of class, followed immediately with a brief discussion of the correct answers; mastery could be demonstrated by the student with four of five complete, correct answers (with no partial credit). […] Students were given a finite number of “quest” retakes. Three class periods during the semester were used as quest makeup periods, during which students would be able to take new versions of EO and GO quests.
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