Words similar to wanting

Example sentences for: wanting

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

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.
Can it be that these experts are wanting in judgment?
A back-bencher charged Chernomyrdin with wanting to take the country back to pre-perestroika times.
Middle-class Americans don't deem people of other faiths as wanting or immoral.
Not wanting to be seen as a censor is the defense of nearly everyone who has helped MacDonald make his upward climb toward respectability.