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Example sentences for: wanting

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The masochistic fascination of 20 Dates is something that the makers of EdTV can only dream about, but I wouldn't exactly call it entertainment; I found myself wanting to apologize on behalf of obnoxious heterosexual Jewish men the world over.
This leaves us in the awkward position of wanting, but not being able, to tell her to go away (or at least to cool her jets) or being inexcusably rude to others.
As the other candidates took potshots at the leader of the pack for (according to them) coddling China, wanting to federalize education policy, equivocating on abortion, and endangering Social Security with a huge tax cut, Bush ducked, smiled and declined to take the charges entirely seriously.
I can understand your wanting to shame the Wall Street Journal with some semblance of mathematical rigor, but Lord knows we poor scientists have to defend ourselves against enough nonsense posing as science ("Mister Chairman, how can that 10 year study show us anything about bears when my cousin told me he never saw a bear in his life?"
Then there's the littlest Weasley, Ginny, who conceives a crush on Harry early in Book 1. It gets her into trouble in Book 2--evidently, wanting to make a good impression on your beloved is another impulse that can inadvertently put you in the hands of darkness.