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Example sentences for: would-be

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The artist, looking either terrified or defiant, is peeling back a bandage to reveal the scars left by bullets from would-be assassin Valerie Solanas' gun.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled partly for Merriam, partly for the competition: Merriam lost its right to the exclusive use of the name Webster , but since that company had become known to the public as the publisher of Noah Webster's dictionaries, would-be Websters were ordered to disclaim on their title pages any connection with the original word book.
There's no shortage of would-be gatekeepers, but in recent years their influence has been waning.
The court ordered that before the sale of an elephant is completed, the would-be owner must convince a state-appointed official that the elephant will be given suitable shelter, enough food, proper health care, and plenty of love.
This would-be thriller gets punctured by the critics: "Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism--from a theological point of view" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The film stars Patricia Arquette as a beautician who is mysteriously afflicted with stigmata after receiving a rosary with a history from her mother.