Wondering how to use Want in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as need or lack.
Want in a sentence
Related words
Want meaning
- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
Synonyms of Want
Example sentences (20)
At the same time, you want there to be a slight sense of theatre: you want someone to put on a bit of a performance.
Finally, as much as players want to avoid Disadvantage themselves, they'll also want to inflict it on their enemies.
A lot of people don’t want to go to bingo games because they don’t want to be around the smoke and I don’t blame them.
Again, Yang believes that if you want the widest audience, you might not want to be labeled and subsequently be pigeonholed.
Do you want a smaller, more compact size that is manageable with one hand, or do you want more information on the screen at once?
But this is funded by a group of large corporations that don't want to pay their fair share, don't want to pay the fees,” he added.
Asked how Buthelezi would want younger generations to remember him, he said he would want to be remembered as a servant of the people.
Depending on how you want to wire the electronics together, you'll want two or more pots (potentiometers) for controlling volume and tone.
And I just, I don’t want you to feel bad about this, but I do want – I need to show you a clip of me on Celebrity Jeopardy a few years ago.
But long term, it's not a solution you want to -- we want to put a lot of resources behind.
Emmanuel asks what becomes of already suffering people who don't want to pick up arms and don't want any part in the people's "revolution".
Another thing to do if you want to make a purchase is critically take a moment to compare what you want to buy to other items in your closet.
But is it because it's Batley and Halifax, two old, traditional clubs that perhaps they want to get away from now and don't want to advertise?
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Anybody else desperately want to leave and desperately want to stay at the same time?
Blazers general manager Joe Cronin was clear: The Trail Blazers want Lillard to stay in Portland, and they want to build a winning team around him.
But if you want to avoid big lineups, you might want to give bad weather a try.
But, even with Biden saying he is planning to run in the 2024 presidential race, many Chicagoans do not want do not want Biden to be on the ballot again.
And 88 per cent want to see more investment in renewable power, while 79 per cent want rail travel subsidised to ensure it is always cheaper than driving.
Phrases with want
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with want
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- want to 261×
- you want 86×
- we want 67×
- they want 35×
- don want 29×
- not want 19×
- and want 17×
- who want 17×
- want the 17×
- want it 14×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word want. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.