How to use "pursuit" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pursuit" in popular movie and book plots

  • When he wakes up, the television and other machines start telling him to get out, and his razor slithers down the stairs in pursuit of him.  - A Thing About Machines
  • They delay Benjamin's pursuit by having Garth's police officer friend perform a rectal search on him.  - Wayne's World (film)
  • Some were going into the woods "in pursuit of love".  - The Bacchae
  • She offers to bear him one if he will abandon his pursuit of Matthew Garth.  - Red River (1948 film)
  • Batman and Robin track him to a county fair while evading a police pursuit led by Yindel.  - The Dark Knight Returns
  • Unfortunately to avoid Crais's pursuit they have to travel into the Uncharted Territories, and thus have no idea how to get home.  - Farscape
  • Tuptim is the narrator, and she tells her audience of the evil King Simon of Legree and his pursuit of the runaway slave Eliza.  - The King and I
  • Now, both men are in pursuit of Helena.  - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • After a pursuit they meet the Green Man and he reveals the Eye.  - The Eye of the World
  • Joe flees the encounter in pursuit of Ratso.  - Midnight Cowboy
  • "A Dark Secret" deals with the initial pursuit through a weapons research facility of the scientist responsible for developing the weaponry.  - Wolfenstein 3D
  • Cole forces his way through a security checkpoint in pursuit of Peters.  - 12 Monkeys
  • They are nearly caught by the Black Riders while in the Shire, but they shake off pursuit by cutting through the Old Forest.  - The Lord of the Rings
  • The pursuit is unsuccessful.  - Moby-Dick
  • The Baker, in pursuit of the cape, slays the Wolf, pulling Little Red Ridinghood and her grandmother from the beast's innards.  - Into the Woods
  • It finally realizes where the danger truly lies and sends a hastily assembled fleet in pursuit of the Out of Band II.  - A Fire Upon the Deep

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