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Example sentences for "need for"

  • The novice-master told him presently that the community had signed the oath, as all others were doing, and that there was no need for anxiety: they were in the hands of their Religious Superiors.

  • He was already twenty-three, the Prior had given his conditional consent before, and there was no need for waiting.

  • Ralph felt his heart suddenly quicken, and his hand flew to his hilt again, but there was no need for him to act.

  • There is no need for you to look for help, I wish neither to frighten nor insult you; my suit is an honourable one enough.

  • I ain't such a fool as I may look; no need for you to go a-blushing of, Miss Angela.

  • Nonsense, Hilda; if you will meet me to-night, I will explain everything; there is no need for you to be jealous.

  • There was no need for Philip to repeat what she said, for Pigott heard her, and at once came forward with the baby, which she laid beside her.

  • There is no need for you to know where I am going, and I am not going to tell you.

  • There is no need for you to remember that you ever knew me in your life.

  • There is no need for you to remember any of the work in which you have been engaged.

  • There was no need for Millwaters to promise faithful compliance; Portlethwaite knew well enough that to put him on a trail was equivalent to putting a hound on the scent of a fox or a terrier to the run of a rat.

  • The raven is a powerful bird and fears no enemy, while, being a carrion-feeder, it has no need for concealment in order to approach its prey.

  • But in the species inhabiting bromelia leaves there is no need for swimming, and accordingly we find the tarsi entirely bare.

  • There is no need for me to say how my arms came to me from Grimsby, and how I went to Eglaf as I had promised.

  • Certainly he had begun by asking whose boats these were, and wondered that a merchant should go fishing at all, when there was no need for him to do so.

  • Dear Harry," said she one day, "why should we make our lives so toilsome when there is no need for it, and thus ruin the best days of our youth?

  • No need for practice in boodwars and draring-rooms!

  • She perceived that there had been no need for him to go into her room save his desire to make this gesture of hate towards her.

  • I must get 'ome to mend a pair o' trowsis o' mine, but there's no need for you to come.

  • There ain't no need for that, Bob," ses Mr. Smith.

  • There's no need for you to call about them.

  • We are not married, but there is no need for me to prove to you that our marriage is perfectly legitimate.

  • I imagine, gentlemen, there is no need for us to go further," said Sheshkovsky.

  • I am a wealthy man and there is no need for me to continue in business, and I am not sure when the time comes I shall not prefer to abandon my country rather than be separated from my daughter.

  • We steer by that at night, or when it's foggy; but on a fine day like this there is no need for it.

  • There is no need for you to know, therefore no need for us to tell you," answered Franz.

  • But there was no need for us all to sit down.

  • The next day was a school holiday, so there was no need for Pelle to hide himself.

  • I know it's only a little, but I have no more, and there's no need for us to be ashamed of being helped by one another.

  • Yes, I'm very hungry to-day, but there's no need for you to remark it!

  • But the very first thing you need for that is to be properly confirmed.

  • No need for an empty stomach to have the nightmare!

  • There was no need for them to introduce themselves to that official.

  • There's no need for that, my poor Perrotte.

  • No need for Grampus to put his signature.

  • It is not so easy, with our rates and taxes and need for economy in all directions, to cast away an epithet or remark that turns up cheaply, and to go in expensive search after more genuine substitutes.

  • So then there will be no need for you to first return home and thereby save time.

  • If you are half as good as your friend here, then indeed have I need for you," was Sir Percival's reply.

  • Too, were such visit soon, there would be need for him to be declared Duke of Gascony at once, so that Arthur could be met in royal state.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "need for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assuring them; brave knight; citrus fruit; could muster; each boat; faltering voice; find words; given three; machine tools; more slowly; much pleased; need for; need hardly; need not; need scarce; need scarcely; need thee; need were; needlepoint lace; needs must; other women; powdered sugar; sweet peas; then evaporated; this fashion; whole nation