Example sentences for: wants

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

  • The staff member has mentioned several times to Becky that she should take the art home, but Becky doesn't want to; she wants the staff person to have it.

  • The admaker would no doubt defend this on the basis that the AARP wants a bipartisan solution; Dole says he does; ergo ...

  • The papers somehow keep straight faces while they pass along two of Hyde's whoppers about all this: 1) The new shape of the hearings has nothing to do with the election results, and 2) He's calling Starr because "He's someone everybody wants to hear from."

  • Though the computer industry had urged AOL to publish technical details of its Instant Messenger to allow other firms to develop software compatible with it, the WP piece claims AOL refused because it "wants to control the messaging market."

  • I'm not giving it another moment's thought on account of I'm too busy writing my novels, and if somebody wants to read one of them instead of sipping a whisky highball and kicking back in an Adirondack chair or an eight-dollar swivel chair or a pig iron porch swing covered in fifty-cent Montgomery Ward paint from a paintcan he keeps on a ledge in the fallingdown barn where his people have been begetting quadroons and octaroons and sixteentharoons and thirtysecondaroons since the time before they thought to write it down, that's nobody's business but his own.


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