Sentence with word motive. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use motive in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for motive.
- But the name for the actual motive? (10)
- It was the only intelligible motive. (4)
- What is meant by the term Leading Motive? (3)
- I can have no self-command without a motive. (4)
- Why was she to suspect herself of another motive? (4)
- All who can distinguish will understand your motive. (4)
- That was his motive for drawing back, I can assure you. (4)
- But this time I had another motive, though I did not allege it. (9)
- The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles. (4)
- But attribute the worst motive: say it is to make people look at her! (9)
- I have always wanted some other motive for his conduct than appeared. (4)
- He asked himself what motive he had, and tried to pretend that he had none. (9)
- He could not make out from the close face of the old man anything of his motive. (9)
- He drew back, but she did not perceive his motive and followed him on her knees. (12)
- In both cases the difference of the novella is in the motive, or the origination. (9)
- It was pretentious and ambitious, mixed in motive like this woman, like himself. (13)
- It is a question of temperamental antecedent motive in the artist, and nothing more. (8)
- Many people had already said similar words to him, and he did not understand their motive. (12)
- She tracked actions up to a motive; but one who came voluntarily to confess needed no sifting. (10)
- Yet I felt no impulse to come to you without any other motive than to give you an explanation. (12)
- This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem. (4)
- Such a man would not have made up his mind to this step without a deep motive, if not a deep feeling. (9)
- I am ready to grant you that he acted neither in conscious hypocrisy nor from any self-seeking motive. (12)
- Elinor could not deny the truth of this, and she tried to find in it a motive sufficient for their silence. (4)
- The young architect was beginning to feel that this was not a world for delicacy of motive and refinement. (13)
- One, if one is in that line of work, feels instinctively just the size and carrying power of the given motive. (9)
- The best view seems to be that the right of fair comment will not shield the false imputations of bad motive. (16)
- But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked. (4)
- Then that novelist began to reflect, and he remembered how sick the invariable motive of the French novel made him. (9)
- Whatever her motive was, he was aware that through it all she permitted herself a closer and fuller trust of himself. (9)
- Not even the protoplasmic jelly could have commenced its journey; there would have been no motive force to make it start. (8)
- March was going to attack this ideal, but he reflected in time that Mr. Leffers had really stated his own motive in reading. (9)
- Moreover, when it kills, it kills in secret; it leaves the bewildered publisher without a clue to the culprit or his motive. (16)
- She perceived no motive for the latter, and she held him to be sound in the head, and what was spoken from the mouth she accepted. (10)
- Elizabeth now expected that she would produce a letter for her from Charlotte, as it seemed the only probable motive for her calling. (4)
- Of course this campaign of education was intended to stimulate interest in their product, and it had no unselfish motive back of it. (17)
- We must make concessions to him, not in this respect only, but in several others, chief among which is the motive for reading fiction. (9)
- Freihild falls in love with him, but he must renounce her, as he knows that he killed Robert out of rivalry in love, an unworthy motive. (3)
- His characterization of her motive was so distasteful that she made no reply, and left him to his conjectures, in which he did not appear unhappy. (9)
- Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive. (4)
- She may have had another motive, for she took occasion there to whisper something to Farina, bringing sun and cloud over his countenance in rapid flushes. (10)
- Almost in the first germinal impulse the inventive mind forefeels the ultimate difference and recognizes the essential simplicity or complexity of the motive. (9)
Also see sentences for: aim, consideration, design, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement.
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