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Example sentences for: would-be

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The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.
When a would-be poet writes the lines,
The Times says the investors include sports figures and a network news anchor (could that be Peter Jennings, would-be host of the now-in-doubt ABC documentary?)
Scripps Co., owner of Home and Garden Television, broke into the "clubby" and expensive cable programming business--in which would-be programmers must even pay cable systems for channel space.
(Next week : The mysterious motives of Hitler's would-be assassin.)