How to use in-sentence of “motive”:
+ Bulimic people often think about how their bodies look, and usually, the motive behind purging is the want to be skinny.
+ This effectively shackles the profit motive for the working class, as upward mobility is all but nonexistent except for those in line with, or actively participating in, the Chinese Communist Party.
+ The motive of Grynszpan is unclear.
+ It was Louis XIV’s motive to remove himself and his nobles from the political intrigues of Paris.
+ Although the use of electricity to power trains had been experimented with during the previous decade, and small-scale operations had been implemented, the CSLR was the first major railway in the world to adopt it as a means of motive power.
+ A week later, The Nexus explained their motive for what they did.
+ Jill explains that her motive was out of anger and jealousy because of the fame that Sidney and Jerry had received for surviving the murders, and that they intend to frame Trevor as Ghostface; she then pulls Trevor out of a closet and shoots him in the head.
+ Its prime motive was for “Great Britain clear to the world its role as an industrial leader”.Kishlansky, Mark; Patrick Geary and Patricia O’Brien.
Example sentences of “motive”:
+ When a need is not met, an individual will have a motive to fulfill that need.
+ The inventor Zhang Heng was the first in history to apply motive power in rotating the astronomical instrument of an armillary sphere, by use of a waterwheel.
+ It is like saying something like “cars move by motive spirit”.
+ The main motive why Vitoria-Gasteiz has more of these immigrants is because recently there was a lot of jobs in building, a sector where Basque people won’t work.
+ A hydrogen car is a vehicle that uses hydrogen as its fuel for motive power.
+ Statistics say the population doubled between these dates, and this is the motive for a great transformation, not only demographic but social.
+ Her motive is alleged to have been envy of the Empress Crispina.
+ When a need is not met, an individual will have a motive to fulfill that need.
+ The inventor Zhang Heng was the first in history to apply motive power in rotating the astronomical instrument of an armillary sphere, by use of a waterwheel.
+ It is like saying something like "cars move by motive spirit".
+ Agrippina had motive in ensuring the succession of Nero before Britannicus could gain power.Levick, Barbara.
+ This motive behind the removal of emotions is made more clear in “The Age of Steel” where it is done by putting in things that keep them from feeling emotions.
+ In often heated argument, Judge Nail said that motive could not be substituted for evidence.
+ When Siegmund looks at the ash tree we hear the sword motive because the sword is in the tree, although at that moment he does not know about it.
+ Today, the word ‘cynicism’ generally describes the opinions and actions of those who believe that self-interest is the primary motive of human behavior.