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Example sentences for: want

How can you use “want” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But when Indonesians started running from their banks a few months ago, what they wanted was dollars--and neither the Indonesian government nor the IMF can give them enough of what they want.
The sheer toil experienced by most Shetlanders is another source of proverbs: Every man's back is shapit for his ain burden ; and A moothful is as guid as a belly fu firmly reminds of the days of real want.
Romley and John Walters, former staff director of the drug czar's office, want the feds to step in.
It was Albert Brooks who pointed out--when his great Lost in America (1985) received a restricted rating from the MPAA for its use of "fuck" in a "sexual context"--that if a character says "I want to fuck you over this desk," the picture will get an R rating, but if he says, "I want to fuck you over with this desk," it will get a PG-13.
Again, you may think you want to brush your teeth with bubble gum, but unless you're under 10, you don't.