How to Use motivation in a Sentence

motivation

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024