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Sentences starting with want

Want it bad--don't you? [9]
Want to know what my price is now. [9]
Want the clothes, too? [11]
Want to substitoot the match-box for the ballot-box. [6]
Want to be postmaster? [5]
Want to keep it off? [5]
Want to get in as many trips as I can before--navigation closes," the Captain concluded significantly. [9]
Want should drive her from the world, and, to hasten her flight, the shrewd adept in reading human nature showed her in the distance the abbess's cross, and tried thereby to arouse her ambition. [10]
Want my autograph, do you? [6]
Want of the ballot, doubtless. [4]

Sentences ending with want

If you keep your eyes open, things'll happen that'll bring what you want. [11]
What is it you want? [5]
What more do you want? [11]
It is happiness you want. [11]
I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
The thing is, you must know how to talk to them, to say the right thing, the flattering, the tactful, and the nice sentimental thing,--they mostly have middle-class sentimentality--and then you get what you want. [11]
Every one says you have done such splendid work for England, and that now you can have anything you want. [11]
I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want! [2]
And, alas again, whatever good showing we may make, we shall wish it were larger; the more people we have the more we shall want. [4]
He really understands what we want. [8]

Short sentences using want

I don't want your letter. [8]
Conrad, I want you, too. [8]
I want my wife. [11]
What more do we want? [10]
What did Maude want? [9]
What does she want? [2]
What do you want? [2]
What do they want? [2]
What did I want? [2]
What do I want? [11]

Sentences containing want two or more times

I did want you--I do want you to vote for it. [5]
Now I want you, if you'll be so good, to go around with me to the Pacific delegation, for I want to rush this thing through and get along home. [5]
I never told you why I came to this country--I didn't want to sadden you with my troubles--but now I want you to understand me better. [4]
And now, if you want to keep her, if you want her to live on with you, I warn you not to tell her you know of the insult this letter contains, nor ever say what would make her think you suspected her. [11]
I don't want you to believe anything I say; I only want you to try to see what makes me believe it. [6]
Besides: "Why shouldn't you have one of these if you want it--if you want it! [11]
I don't care whether they want to swear or not, they don't want to be on their good behavior. [6]
Do you know what it is to want what you don't want? [4]
I want you, we all want you, to be the big man you are at heart. [11]
He'll want a warming-pan, next--he'll want a nurse! [5]

More example sentences with the word want in them

You said so yourself--that you didn't want, any one to know, now. [9]
Possibly it is your skull: you want to look out for that. [5]
When we want your opinion on scientific matters, we will hasten to let you know. [5]
Fresh proof of your maxim, mother: if you want to be well served you must buy rascals! [10]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
Do you want your head blown off? [5]
When I hold your hand I feel that life's worth living--I want to do things. [11]
I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails. [10]
And we want your captain, alive or dead. [9]
I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
Come, I think your account with my father is squared; and I want you to vote to put my father's son in Parliament, and to put out Barode Barouche, who's been there too long. [11]
Your friend's the young man from Witherden's office I think--yes--May we ne'er want a-- Nobody else at all, been, Mr Richard? [12]
Many of my young correspondents have told me in so many words, "I want to be famous. [6]
Cynthy, I love you--I want you to be my woman--" "Your woman! [9]
I should think you'd want to paint Miss Woodburn. [8]
I'd come for you, to your house," he added quickly, "but we don't want any one to know, yet--do we? [9]
The trouble with you, Honora, is that you want something badly very badly--and you haven't yet found out what it is. [9]
Shorter, undisturbed, "that you will pick out the house you want, and that your husband will move into it. [9]
But I tell you what: if you want to see something fine, you must go down as soon as possible to Sunburst. [11]
If fight's what you want, out with it! [5]
It is peace you want, my mother, peace and solitude, in which the soul goes to sleep. [11]
It's your sister you want, isn't it? [9]
So it's blood you want, is it, you ravin' desperado! [5]
I have what you want, Frau Burgermeisterin! [10]
Throw in what you want, and we'll be off directly. [12]
Lord, what do you want with words to express that? [5]
And what can you want with that wretched, pale-faced, innocent creature? [10]
You can if you want to. [9]
Go,--ruin yourself if you want to. [9]
That's a point you want to watch for. [5]
No, sir, if you want to see me, you've got to wait. [9]
Is there anything you want to say before that? [11]
And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway? [5]
And why should you want to know me and see me outside of the office? [9]
I'm going now,--unless you want to hear some more about the plots I've been getting into. [9]
And what do you want to go and discourage the other flowers for? [5]
After the theatres you want to be amused. [4]
There, if ever you want such a person, or if--" She paused. [11]
Why, what could you want over here in the bend, then? [5]
But, Bern, do you want me to turn into a rabbit? [13]
Which one do you want me to make my enemy by telling him or her that the other isn't good enough? [4]
What is it you want me to do? [11]
But why don't you want it known? [5]
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. [5]
But what do you want for your money? [10]
But I want you to understand that it isn't your limitations that are in the way. [8]
I do want you to try, Basil. [8]
I don't want you to trifle with any one. [8]
I don't want you to think that I was eavesdropping," she added quickly; "I couldn't help hearing it. [9]
And I want you to send a copy to the man that shot my dog. [5]
I don't want you to see. [11]
There, I wanted you to see where I stand with Di; and now I want you to promise me that you'll not leave these rooms till I see you again. [11]
I don't want you to see them, nor your sisters, nor nobody in this town; if a neighbor was to ask how is your uncles this morning your face would tell something. [5]
Lassiter, I want you to see my horses. [13]
What I want you to see is that I did not grudge my brother his share of my father's inheritance, like any petty trader. [10]
I don't want you to pity me for it," she said, forestalling a politeness from Mrs. March. [8]
I do want you to make money, a lot of it. [4]
I don't want you to make a mistake, Hugh, too great a mistake. [9]
Ranulph, I want you to know that I am at least no worse than you thought me. [11]
Now I want you to impart them to others. [9]
I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
And I want you to draw on me for money as you go along," which he did. [5]
Davy, I want you to do something for me. [9]
I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
I don't want you to cheapen yourself. [8]
I don't want you to believe me--look at the assay! [5]
Yet I want you to be sorry too. [11]
I didn't want you to be like Ralph or the others. [9]
We only want you to be happy. [4]
I'm not asking you to be a detective,--I only want you to give me warning if we are to have a strike. [9]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
It's lucky for you that from what she let fall, I've got the clue I want, for if I hadn't, I'd have visited the failure upon you, I can tell you. [12]
When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
Yet I want you so much. [13]
There it was, you see--we couldn't tell what Satan didn't want told; he had said so himself. [5]
If you, Philip--if you say it is all right, I will believe that it is right, for you would never want your wife to have one single wrong thing like a dark spot on her life with you--would you? [11]
Need I remind you of the importance of punctuality in your engagements, and of the worry and distress to patients and their friends which the want of it occasions? [3]
I don't want you mixed up in the mess. [11]
I'm getting old, you know, and any little disappointment makes me want to cry. [5]
That's something that you just want to take on trust. [5]
I can't pay you for your kindness to me, and I don't want to. [11]
I know how you feel,--you want to be in it, just as I do. [9]
I can imagine you don't want to lose her, eh? [11]
I knew that you did not want me. [9]
Send me whatever you can spare conveniently--I want it to work the Flyaway with. [5]
For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you are ninety to read some of the rest. [5]
Yes, sah; an' you can jes' call for anything you want, and dish yer whole railroad'll be turned wrong end up an' inside out for to get it for you. [5]
That's the way you begun here, I guess; and I don't want to see your horse tumble because some one throws a fence-rail at its legs. [11]
But sit where you are, if you please, in case I want you. [12]
I can't give you any passes, and I know you don't want any, but you can just get into my private car and no expense to anybody, and see all there is to be seen. [4]
I never did you any harm, and I do want to have a hero in my tiny circle. [11]
But I want you again this evening; so, if you feel weak, I shall lock you up. [10]
I couldn't go yesterday--I didn't want to go," she added, fearing he might think his work had kept her. [9]
What is it ye want to see him about? [5]
An' that's what ye cahl it when ye 're kapin' company with one young gintleman an' don't want another young gintleman to come in an' help the two of ye? [6]
I may be wrong, but I have an idea that when the people of this country learn how their legislatures are conducted they will want to change things. [9]
I want to write to Orion, but I keep putting it off--I keep putting everything off. [5]
But do you write Barstow that I have left here for a week or so, and in case he should want me he must write me here, or let me know through you. [5]
A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]

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