Use needed in a sentence
Sentences ending with needed
- If her father would only receive him, he would find it no easier than she to deny him the compassion he so greatly needed. [10]
- Often the warder would announce the senator and his wife, and their vigorous and healthy minds always hit on the very thing she needed. [10]
- For this, some work of scholarship and industry was needed. [4]
- A young woman who was left in charge of the villa had supplied him with whatever he needed. [10]
- The days came when the tender-hearted Miss Forsythe went about the house restless, impatient, tearful, waiting for a summons that was sure to come when she was needed. [4]
- But you see when people have been getting ready for months in a quiet way to get married, they are bound to grow stingy, and go to saving up money against that awful day when it is sure to be needed. [5]
- It had seemed, when he stole away from Maurice's bedside, that he was not in the least needed. [6]
- In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
- While her lips were still glowing from his kisses, she had carried on a reckless game with another, and was now robbing him of the repose of mind which he so urgently, needed. [10]
- I know very well that Count Nicholas is too young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. [2]
Short sentences using needed
- It needed no words. [4]
- The Folly needed watching. [9]
- And it's needed, too--it's needed. [5]
- The delay was not needed. [10]
- It was all needed. [6]
- Words were not needed. [5]
- Something else is needed. [2]
- Natasha needed a husband. [2]
- I'm needed most here. [11]
- Ay, she needed calmness! [10]
Sentences containing needed two or more times
- No one needed to watch Grant or Sherman, they only needed to get out of their way. [7]
- So much had occurred and she felt so old this morning; and yet there was in her heart the undefined feeling that she must keep her radiant Spring of life for the blind Gorgio if he needed it-if he needed it. [11]
- It was finished, it was complete, its materials were strong and lasting, it needed no furbishing up, no repairs; it merely needed to be let alone. [5]
- I felt that I needed her as I never had needed anyone in all my life.... [9]
- To lead men forward under fire more discipline (obtainable only by movement in masses) is needed than is needed to resist attacks. [2]
- And if at any day at all, why not now when she needed a man as she had never done--when she needed to forget? [11]
More example sentences with the word needed in them
- He was too young to die, but he had gold, and the captain of the citadel needed money. [11]
- He needed encouragement,--what young lawyer does not on his first important case? [9]
- Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
- I have needed you all my life--one in whom h might have absolute faith. [9]
- It took many years to train the as yet undisciplined powers into orderly obedience, and to bring the unarranged materials into the organic connection which was needed in the construction of a work that should endure. [6]
- King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
- What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
- But we knew with what intellectual giants we had to do; no one had needed to tell us that, at least; and when they called me to them I felt as if the king himself had honoured me. [10]
- He approached this with unusual delicacy: it needed bravery to look into the mother's eyes, and tell the story. [11]
- They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
- The paddles dropped with agreeable precision, and no boatswain's rattan was needed to keep my fellows to their task. [11]
- The clown who, with a comical show of respect, offered her what she needed for her next feat, told her this. [10]
- Not that the wiser part of the profession needed him to teach them; but the routinists and their employers, the "general practitioners," who lived by selling pills and mixtures, and their drug-consuming customers, had to recognize that people could get well, unpoisoned. [6]
- His attack on Willis very probably did him good; he needed a little discipline, and though he got it too unsparingly, some cautions came with it which were worth the stripes he had to smart under. [6]
- Every varying circumstances will require frequent modifications as to the amount needed and the sources of supply. [7]
- Something's needed that will play our game and turn the tables on the reptile too. [11]
- It was the will of Heaven that he should give up his enterprise and be content to make due preparations for a noble work which could be carried through without him, in order to accomplish another, out of friendship, which urgently needed his help. [10]
- I don't know why I loved him, it wasn't because he was fine, like Mr. Insall, but he was strong and brave, and he needed me and just took me. [9]
- The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
- Some faculty of which I had never before been conscious had awakened in me, and I needed no interpreter to explain the unspoken language of my celestial attendant. [6]
- A dozen schemes which he had in hand, any one of which might turn up a fortune, all languished, and each needed just a little more, money to save that which had been invested. [5]
- Art is vitiated when the commercial demand, which may be a needed stimulus, presides at the creation. [4]
- The capital needed, when peace comes, to ensure a happy and contented democracy must be procured without encroaching on the minimum standard of life, and without hampering production. [9]
- Half the time when Nick is needed he is not to be found; then it turns out that he has been gadding around with you two. [5]
- But that's not what is needed now. [2]
- It was just what I needed, in order to carry out my project of escape. [5]
- A number of wharfboat clerks were needed, and part of the time, every day, they were very busy, and part of the time tediously idle. [5]
- In fact, those were very trying days for him-days when he needed all the private sympathy he could get, and to be shielded, in his great fight with the conspiracy, from petty private annoyances. [4]
- All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
- That, if it were needed, was the concluding evidence of her femininity, for it went fittingly with her sun-tinted hair and darkened, dilated eyes, the sweetness of her mouth, and the striking symmetry of her slender shape. [13]
- But no promises were needed to incite the worthy mountaineer to hospitality. [10]
- But few seconds were needed for these reflections, and as he was accustomed when need arose to control himself, he said: "We must see--some means must be found--" and then without any greeting to his host, he slowly returned to his own house. [10]
- Perhaps it was well that it should not, for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Nature which was needed, and for which many of us have made proper acknowledgments. [6]
- For Eldon Parr well knew that his will needed no reenforcement by argument. [9]
- When winter set well in Gabord brought me a blanket, and though last year I had not needed it, now it was most grateful. [11]
- The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage, and nothing more was needed. [12]
- Don't you think we needed something? [13]
- That's our justification--if we needed one--it's been too strong for us. [9]
- That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it. [5]
- And before it was won he needed more help than his own somewhat irresolute will could give. [4]
- That her lover was the most powerful sovereign on earth, and she could appeal to him if she needed help, did not enter her mind. [10]
- Here in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
- He said he was sorry to disturb me, but as he was passing he noticed that I needed some lightning-rods. [5]
- The University bill was safe, now; he could leave it without fear; it needed his presence and his watching no longer. [5]
- By nature he was respectful; but the politician now was playing a dirty game, and he himself might fight without gloves, if needed. [11]
- But to him was opposed a man who was at the beginning of his career, who needed this victory to give him such a start as few men get in that field of retarded rewards, diplomacy. [11]
- Her curiosity, however, was not to remain wholly ungratified; for when Biberli found that it was time for him to repair to the Town Hall to learn whether his master, Heinz Schorlin, needed his services, Katterle came out of the house door with him. [10]
- To her this was not a means of livelihood, but simply that she might be of service to those all about her who needed help more than she did. [4]
- Money, he said, was needed, for Clark and all were very poor, and common necessaries were now at exorbitant prices in the country. [11]
- An external shock was needed to overcome that shame, and this shock came in due time. [2]
- Perhaps this blow was needed for his spiritual pride. [4]
- A third case was needed and servants had gone to fetch it. [2]
- But now there was needed an entanglement, intrigue, amour, and then America should shriek at his picture of one of the British aristocracy, and a gentleman of the Commons, "on the loose," as he put it. [11]
- His tormented brain was like a dried-up well; bucket after bucket did he send down, but not one brought up the refreshing draught he needed. [10]
- All we needed was just enough for the pie, and so we throwed the rest away. [5]
- What I needed was an object-lesson, you see. [5]
- The celebrated author was a little surprised, because in the books the young struggler had needed but one lift, apparently. [5]
- Whereas formerly many wares which needed to be kept dry had been hoisted from the outer door and the street to the spacious attic, this was now prevented by the projecting figures of the nude men and the bears. [10]
- During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed. [2]
- Sometimes, in low voices, we talked of our future; but often, when the wind blew and the deck rocked and the sun flashed upon the waters, a silence would fall between us that needed no word to interpret. [9]
- Why had he--Captain Vidall--kept out of the way all these weeks, just when she needed him most, just when he should have played the part of a man? [11]
- The Cure is very kind, and says that, with your permission, his sister will keep the office here, if--if needed. [11]
- It needed no very keen perception to discover this part of the enemies program, so soon as by open hostilities their machinery was fairly put in motion. [7]
- It needed a very cool head and the skill of a gymnast. [4]
- It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. [5]
- She could confidently venture to invite him to the meeting which she had in view; her aunt, the abbess, had promised to stand by her side, if she needed her, in her intercourse with the knight. [10]
- She shrank from using it yet, and besides, dark times might come when it would be needed. [11]
- If I am using both my hands and want some coffee, I make the sign and Angelo furnishes it to me; and you saw that when he needed a potato I delivered it. [5]
- He understood the use of tools, and he now hastily selected such as he needed. [10]
- The Masons gave us a Missouri country breakfast, in Missourian abundance, and we needed it: hot biscuits; hot 'wheat bread' prettily criss-crossed in a lattice pattern on top; hot corn pone; fried chicken; bacon, coffee, eggs, milk, buttermilk, etc. [5]
- She caught herself up with a start after one of these silences to realize that Mr. Grainger was making unwonted and indeed pathetic exertions to entertain her, and it needed no feminine eye to perceive that he was thoroughly uncomfortable. [9]
- On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed anywhere. [5]
- It is almost uncanny they should be there just when they're most needed. [11]
- We are now trying to make plans--we: we who have never made a plan before, nor ever needed to. [5]
- It is a truth which I thought needed to be told, and, as whatever of humiliation there is in it falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it. [7]
- It needed no trained eye to guess at the perils of the place. [9]
- But he felt too that she needed greater wisdom, and he was ready to give it--a friendly characteristic of the big open spaces "where life is so simple and so large. [11]
- They had been too busy with other matters to-day, and now they needed all hands in heaping the bodies together. [10]
- His lamentable outcry told me that he needed help, and once more in my life I fulfilled my strange fate, which has ever been to cast to the winds that for which my soul most longed, for another to take it up. [10]
- Apparently nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it; so, for a century and a half the Mississippi remained out of the market and undisturbed. [5]
- Having practically come to the mere defensive, it seems to be no economy at all to employ twice as many men for that object as are needed. [7]
- They were going to the front, the one to find his regiment, the other to look for those who needed his assistance. [6]
- Then he roused to the call of action, to the many things he needed to do in the way of making camp fixtures and utensils, to the necessity of hunting food, and the desire to explore the valley. [13]
- Evidently Natasha needed to tell that painful yet joyful tale. [2]
- It was impossible to take Margaret with him on his sudden and tedious journeys from one end of the country to the other, but she needed a change. [4]
- He meant, however, to take a hand in, if he thought he was needed, and he kept his ear glued to the door. [11]
- Ulrich was obliged to share the jester's sleeping-room, and as Pellicanus shrank from getting out of bed, while suffering from night-sweats, and often needed something, he roused Ulrich from his sleep, and the latter was always ready to assist him. [10]
- That you needed to rub against the plain men who were building up the West. [9]
- Not a person to read Browning with, but to call on if one needed a nurse, or a good dinner, or a charitable deed. [4]
- When it came to putting that theory into practice, however, one needed convictions: Nancy had been right when she had implied that convictions were precisely what we lacked; what our world in general lacked. [9]
- Then it occurred to Mr. Barnum that he needed a "card" He suggested Jumbo. [5]
- He needed not to have spoken for her to have felt that. [9]
- Is it not to give such constitutional helps to the rights established by that Constitution as may be practically needed? [7]
- I needed something to fight for. [9]
- When she needed to cry, the deceased count would be the pretext. [2]
- Little was needed to convince me now that Mrs. Clive was Mrs. Temple, and thus the lady's relapse when she heard that her son was in the house was accounted for. [9]
- He needed but to carry the banner of bravery, and a busy sword, and his way to power was not hindered by poor estate. [11]
- I needed not to be told that before me were the renowned leaders of the Watauga settlements. [9]
- I was sorry to be obliged to give the order, but we needed the ground where they stood. [10]
- She needed time to adjust herself to the situation. [11]
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