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Example sentences for: would-be

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The message is all the more urgent because its mere presence hints that would-be contributors often do submit the same essay to more than one journal simultaneously.
Even allowing for the fact that companies trying to resist hostile takeovers will say and do almost anything to make their would-be acquirers look bad, the German reaction to the Vodafone offer has been striking for its vehemence and the nakedness of its nationalism.
Like many another would-be prophet of sexual glamour (D.H.
' I have pondered on this phrase, and the only person I can imagine using it is the secretary of the local branch of a political party who, having handed the Committee members a short list of would-be candidates, asks: “Which of these people shall we render prospective?”
A tour through the cave includes a brief ride on an underground river in a boat (which would-be emigrants once stole for an unsuccessful escape attempt to Florida).