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Sentences starting with wanted

Wanted me--I wanted you, Cynthy. [9]

Sentences ending with wanted

Why is that woman always out of the way when she is most wanted? [12]
Silas Peckham reckoned with perfect confidence on his Trustees, who had always said what he told them to, and done what he wanted. [6]
He turned away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dolokhov had said to him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. [2]
Even as he whistled Meyerbeer, riding towards Tralee, his eyes had a look of one who was trying to see into things; and his lips, when the whistling ceased, had a cheerful pucker which seemed to show that he had seen what he wanted. [11]
At a time when an Indian attack had been expected, the citizens hid their gunpowder where it would be safe and yet convenient to hand when wanted. [5]
And--" [Here Simon Wheeler heard his name called from the front yard, and got up to see what was wanted. [5]
Well, I saw what they wanted. [8]
She had got what she wanted. [11]
This was perhaps what Jethro wanted. [9]
I should know what I wanted. [10]

Short sentences using wanted

Then Moreright wanted water. [5]
That's all you wanted! [2]
I knew you wanted me. [11]
He understood; she wanted him. [11]
He knew I wanted Hester. [9]
I--I've always wanted to teach. [9]
I always wanted to paint. [8]
I wanted him to go. [9]
She wanted love, this woman. [5]
I wanted to test it. [9]

Sentences containing wanted two or more times

Was it something you wanted to forget there, some one you wanted to help here? [11]
We agreed that when she wanted bustle, or when I wanted quiet, we were to let each other know, and exchange visits as occasion required. [14]
All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. [5]
I have always wanted, or, anyhow, one side of me has always wanted, to do right, and the other side has always done wrong. [11]
When they were together, one moment she wanted to take his hands in her hands, and in the next she wanted to push him over some great cliff--he was so maddening. [11]
The king wanted to stop his wages; he even wanted to banish him, but I interfered. [5]
My party wanted to land at once--therefore I wanted to go on. [5]
She was, perforce, thrilled that he was virile and wanted her, but because he wanted her clandestinely her pride revolted, divining his fear of scandal and hating him for it like a thoroughbred. [9]
The fact was, though Philip Sterling did not know it, that he wanted several other things quite as much as he wanted wealth. [5]
I feared that those people would merely comprehend that their courtesies were not wanted, and yet not know exactly why they were not wanted. [5]

More example sentences with the word wanted in them

You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
Was that what you wanted to see me about? [5]
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]
But I wanted you to know. [9]
And I wanted you to be proud of me. [9]
I remember what you read in church the first Sunday you came, and it has always helped me; for I wanted to be good. [11]
I have wanted you ever since that night long ago when I slipped out of your bed and ran away. [9]
Dyer had wanted you brought up the vilest of the vile! [13]
Don't you see you are not wanted here? [2]
Parties in New York only last week wanted me to go down into Arizona in a big diamond interest. [5]
I wanted this year to be by a lake. [6]
I wanted to write what was in me, and that invasion of a little secluded French-Canadian society by a ne'er-do-well of the over-sea aristocracy had a psychological interest, which I could not resist. [11]
He wanted to write to Celia--but he did not--that he loved her more than ever. [4]
They said it wouldn't go; and they wanted to examine it, and spy around and get the secret of it out of me. [5]
He said it would tell my whole fortune if I wanted it to. [5]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Waiting, in silence, would have been agreeable enough, for I was full of matter for reflection, and wanted to give it a chance to work. [5]
And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!--but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
I believe I would begin attending lectures this winter if it weren't for being wanted in Washington. [5]
Why, we could work with a torchlight procession if we wanted to, I believe. [5]
I wanted to work at the first thing that appealed to me. [11]
I got the words 'Upper Marlboro' and 'South River' and 'next voyage,' and that profligate rector wanted to know as to how 'Griggs was reliable. [9]
They're after sending word you wanted me. [9]
And he sent word to the lawyer a month ago that he wanted it to get here as usual. [11]
The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
I knew it without asking, but I wanted to hear you say it. [5]
He was closeted with Mr Witherden for some little time, and Mr Abel had been called in to assist at the conference, before Kit, wondering very much what he was wanted for, was summoned to attend them. [12]
He began taking with her as a physician; he wanted to know how her rheumatism had been. [6]
Now they rejoiced with Dion, and wanted to send at once for their host and future son-in-law, who was in the city attending a meeting of the Ephebi, although he had ceased some time ago to be a member of their company. [10]
She did not wish to speak with him now, nor to be near him yet; she wanted this day for herself only. [11]
I wanted Dick Wilberforce to do something with me the other day, and he declined. [11]
He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
I published the wickedest article on them I ever wrote in my life, and you can rest assured we got all the information we wanted after that. [5]
He asked me why I wanted to get in there, and I said to see a friend--and for curiosity. [5]
Wanted, a man who would satisfy the conditions of the miocene environment, and yet would be good enough for an ancestor. [4]
About a man, who wanted treasures, and before whom mountains opened at a word he knew. [10]
Then people came who wanted to till the ground. [10]
Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. [5]
When every one who wanted a chance had had it, the man who had introduced the story would give it its original ending--then you could take your choice. [5]
Being a man who thought much and wisely for other people, he wanted to give the wife time to get herself in control. [11]
Even those members who seemed to be on his side understood him in their own way with limitations and alterations he could not agree to, as what he always wanted most was to convey his thought to others just as he himself understood it. [2]
King and Forbes, who had not had a Fourth of July for some time, wanted to see what it was like at Newport. [4]
Many a man who had gone through what I had, would have wanted to rest. [5]
I wanted to whisper in his ear, "Man, we are in awful danger! [5]
They waited a while; then it occurred to Washington that there could be no use in chasing one horse-car with another, and he wanted to hunt up a hack. [5]
And after a while I told her about that verse, and she wanted to see it--the verse about the skylark, you know--" "Yes," said Austen. [9]
The point upon which, they wanted instruction was this. [5]
We didn't think whether it was sad or not, we only knew it pleased our ears, and we wanted those sweet fields of Eden, and the blooming tree of life, and the rest under the tree. [11]
She knew that where he had been she could in one sense never go, and yet she wanted to be near him just the same. [11]
For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow among its dungeons, or climb about its ruined towers, or visit its interior shows--the great Heidelberg Tun, for instance. [5]
It had prevailed when men were open robbers and filibusters and warriors, giving their lives, if need be, to get what they wanted, making force their god. [11]
He drew ashore whatever he wanted that would serve his purpose. [6]
Do tell me what she wanted in your laboratory. [6]
Mr. Hutchins knew what he wanted. [9]
Then, evidently remembering what he wanted, he beckoned to Andrew Kaysarov, his adjutant's brother. [2]
It was just what he knew she could and would do; and he foresaw for Byng, if he wanted it, a peerage in the not distant future. [11]
D-didn't ask me what he could do for me, what I wanted, or anything else, but just stood there, and I stood there. [9]
When I heard what had happened here I wanted to speak, but who listens to a cricket while it thunders? [10]
Haven't I done what Flint wanted always? [9]
She found out what each member could do and wanted to do. [6]
But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
The public gardens were filled by afternoon, and whoever wanted to address the people had no need to call an audience together. [10]
Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. [5]
They treated me well, and I shall not forget it; I could not forget it if I wanted to. [5]
The way she weakened her eyesight was this: When she was sixteen or seventeen, she wanted much to draw; and she copied niminipimini copper-plate engravings out of annuals, ('stippling,' don't the artists call it? [14]
I'm old and weak and this is what you wanted. [2]
In our case we were put in the carriage because my mother would not leave us behind, and wanted to give our grandparents pleasure by our presence. [10]
In those days we were not content to embalm the thing and bury it decently, we wanted to build a monument over it. [5]
We saw all we wanted to,--pictures, furniture, and the rest. [6]
So after that we had all the talk we wanted; and we wanted a good deal, for they were agreeable people. [5]
What we wanted we got not by defying the world, but by conforming to it: we were ready to defy only when our desires overcame the resistance of our synapses, and even then not until we should have exhausted every legal and conventional means. [9]
I always thought we could vote anything we wanted. [8]
It's the sure way, and the only sure way; I might have thought of that sooner--well, yes, if I had wanted to. [5]
It was his way to force things to his liking, if possible; and he wanted to hear about the woman--why, he did not ask himself. [11]
Count Rostov's mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged Pierre, but Pierre wanted to speak himself. [2]
I wanted to watch Lassiter, but Dyer's face, onct I seen it like thet, glued my eyes. [13]
He said he wasn't in such a very particular hurry, but he wanted to get to the top while he was young. [5]
A Master Man was what I wanted to be. [11]
The large enclosure was wanted during the next few days for a special purpose, and there were new things for Coello to do. [10]
What he wanted was to get her thoroughly interested in himself, and to maintain her in a receptive condition until such time as he should be ready for a final move. [6]
What he wanted was to be free of mules and burros and steers, to roll in dust-patches, and then to run down the wide, open, windy sage-plains, and at night browse and sleep in the cool wet grass of a springhole. [13]
And besides she was sure they wanted her up stairs by this time, and she must go, indeed-- 'No, but Barbara,' said Kit, detaining her gently, 'let us part friends. [12]
She said she was quite ready to go to New York; she had been thinking it all over, and now she really wanted to go. [8]
I found he was only a friendly villain who wanted a trifle of bucksheesh, and after begging what he could get in that way, was perfectly willing to trade off everything he had for more. [5]
That poor town was not to blame, of course; yet we flushed hot with that old memory, and hoped there would be a misunderstanding here, for we dearly wanted to storm the place and burn it. [5]
In passing, it was not just what I wanted to say. [9]
Alas, my regeneration was not complete--I wanted to smoke! [5]
Assured that it was Kit, though he saw little more than his nose, Mr Quilp hailed him by his name; whereupon Kit came in and demanded what he wanted. [12]
The single gentleman was inexorable; and whenever he had exhausted all other modes and fashions of restlessness, it invariably occurred to him that Kit's mother wanted brandy and water. [12]
Well, the truth was I wanted to see you again, Judge. [9]
They say Dicky was half dead with fright, and wanted to put in anywhere. [9]
A brass button was gone from Deacon Lysander's, and she wanted to sew it on. [9]
At first it was fun, such fun you cannot think, and I do not mind the heat; but when the great hunt had gone by I wanted to go to my grand mother and I was not allowed. [10]
If the latter was falsely believed to be his work, then Proclus's judgment was explained--then--then--- Seized by a torturing anguish, he groaned aloud, and the steward Gras inquired what he wanted. [10]
Angelo accepted, and was expecting Luigi to decline, but he did not, because he knew that the Bible class and the Freethinkers met in the same room, and he wanted to treat his brother to the embarrassment of being caught in free-thinking company. [5]
I believed I was clinging to the ideal of art, and that all I wanted was a chance. [9]
I understood he was awful mad at the way the thing started off, and wanted to give you a piece of his mind, when he got at you. [8]
But the sounding-board was an improvement, and we advanced to bolder measures; having heard a little, we wanted to hear more. [4]
He said it was all right, he only wanted a word with you,", continued Laura. [5]

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