Besoin *On connaît les amis au besoin = A friend in need is a friend indeed.
On a souvent besoin d’un plus petit que soi = A mouse may be of service to a lion.
The sense of fatigue, and the besoin de respirer are both Nature's danger signals.
The habit of loving, le besoin d'aimer, is more powerful than all sense of the folly and the danger.
What overmasters him is the longing for the opportunity of expression; the besoin de se faire sentir, which is as powerful and imperious as the besoin d'aimer.
One day he wrote on a slip of paper, 'Le medecin a besoin du cure,' and sent it to the village priest, who quickly obeyed the summons.
On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi=--One has often need of one inferior to one's self.
Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait=--He has great need of a fool who makes himself one.
Qui sert bien son pays n'a pas besoin d'aieux=--He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
In 1701, it was the duty of the French ambassador, 'qu'il put au besoin etre premier ministre d'Espagne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besoin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.