How to Use motivation in a Sentence

motivation

noun
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  • Some students need motivation to help them through school.
  • Many people have questioned her motivations in choosing to run for office at this time.
  • For one, you can get inspired and find motivation in the words of the Buddha.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 12 July 2023
  • On the final day of the 2021 season, Austin Hays felt a jolt of motivation.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
  • Even with the program in flux, there is still motivation to finish the year right.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • There shouldn't need to be any extra motivation to go out and do our job.
    — Chris Manning, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But his motivations are pure and his actions for the most part are also very pure.
    — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Its motivation was to never again taste the agony of defeat.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • But when Jones met Alexander, the talent didn’t match the motivation.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For the teen, playing softball has been a source of motivation.
    — Stacy Rollins, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • My main motivation was to live a longer and healthier life for her.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Laura: To me, the question is always what would be not the motivation for the aliens to mutilate the cattle?
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • In terms of the newer cast, Alexandra and Peter’s motivations for change are murky at best.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a sense of urgency to the game, which offers clues to the motivations of those who built and distributed it.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The study examines the current habits and motivations of the workforce.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 25 May 2023
  • At the time of the initial breach, The Impact Team revealed their motivation for the cyber attack.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • In the mud of the lack of motivation of their military personnel.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • So, what then are the motivations a young rich person might have for unloading works passed down to them?
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Despite their motivation, Creighton will keep Arizona out of the Elite Eight yet again.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The motivation for Netflix is to use this feature to bring in more revenue, in a move widely praised by Wall Street.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
  • His motivations are pure: God, science and the legacy of the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 launch.
    — Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • This much is the same, though: their fuel, their drive, their motivation, their purpose.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And customers should tip in line with their own values and motivation.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 May 2023
  • And what Arrupe shows, to my mind, is that there's lots of motivation out there among low-income students.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • However, this week brings a shift in energy—and an uptick in shopping motivation—as the sale starts to come to a close.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And for founders who are struggling to raise funds right now—and by the looks of the data, that could be a lot of them—that customer focus could provide a bit of motivation.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • The puppy seemed like a perfect fit for a detection dog because of her motivation and drive to learn.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Then, a day later, Tina took me aside into a side room and started talking to me about the motivation behind it.
    — Stacy Lambe, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The motivation for many of these founders is to use technology to assist human labor in the process.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In this new entry, opting to remain friends with characters still keeps those interactions rich, witch each character still having their own motivations and narrative arc.
    — Kazuma Hashimoto, Them, 28 Oct. 2024

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