How do you use Want in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like need or lack, plus the exact meaning.
Want in a sentence
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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
Using Want
- The main meaning on this page is: To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand. | 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.
- Useful related words include: need, lack, demand, desire.
- In the example corpus, want often appears in combinations such as: want to, you want, we want.
Example sentences (20)
You'd probably want a two-part movie: you'd want to bring the Hellfire Club in; you'd want it to be truly intergalactic; you'd want to bring in Lilandra; you'd want to really tell it that way.
Most people want to pursue their dreams, living in America to me means, if you have a dream, you want to start a business, you want to start a newspaper, you want to start a construction company, you’re able to do that.
If its war we want, if its blood we want, if its death we want, and if we want to burn this country down, God can eventually yield and grant us that wish if we push him too far since we are taking this peace for granted.
Want Want China Times, a Taiwanese media group long rumored to be closely linked to Beijing, is suing the alleging Want Want-owned media outlets take daily editorial orders from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office.
We want development,we justice,we want poverty reduction,we want education accessible to all,corruption free e.t.c,it’s these things that makes us do politics and vote for you don’t think we just want to be cheering you or making you leaders for funny.
We want to be loved, we want to be understood, we want to be happy, we want our needs to be met, but in the dearth of any of those things, tender mercies can see us through.
But I want to get to know the individuals and I want to know what it’s been like and what they want to talk about.
Cockcroft: We are part of the older generation who want a physical product, but Apple is turning away from us and focusing their attention on younger people who want who want new mixes and are listening on different platforms through different speakers.
If there is good food to be had I want in. If there is some kind of eating challenge I want to know all about it, it doesn't mean that I will participate but I want to watch it happen.
Less than three minutes later, he was a little more direct: "We want you to have fun, we want you to feel safe, and most importantly, we want me to feel safe," Kimmel said.
The passengers did not want to miss their tours, the cruise companies did not want to miss stops and tourism operators did not want to miss out on the business.
We want the good jobs, we want the pretty wife and kids, and we want the vacations to Disney world and a few dogs with the picket fence.
With a thoughtful pause, he doubled down: "We didn't want to try anything new, we didn't want to reinvent the wheel, we didn't want this to be another explorative album.
You want it to move, you want them to be on the journey, and you don’t want it to be too long.
As a “think” tank, it is axiomatic, you want what donors and “stakeholders” want, not what people want.
At this point if the rich elite want to crash it, they can do it anytime they want and if they want to make a big killing, they can also do it.
Because I want to achieve things, I want to win things, I want to keep trying to be the best goalie in the world if I can.
Everybody wants nice things, we want the city to look pretty, we want the flower baskets, we want the roads, something done with them.
He later apologised to the court, stating: “I just want to be a normal member of society, I want my past to disappear, I want prison to be a distant memory.
I consider myself pro-Palestinian in that I want the occupation to end, I want a Palestinian state and I want peace.
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×