Example Sentences

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You are noble and good, Code, and I know what has actuated you to say this to me.

From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.

It is to prevent any embarrassment growing out of the probability of this condition that has actuated me in not making public the names of the parties in question.

From The Facts of Reconstruction by Lynch, John R.

The thermally active carbon made from the shells has actuated laboratory thermostats for me for several years.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Lady Florence Dixie frankly tells us her reason for venturing into Patagonia, and no doubt it is the reason which has actuated many of her sisters in their world-wanderings.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

This was a paroxysm of that hate which, stronger than all my reason, has actuated me through life.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James