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Example sentences for "really wanted"

  • I sensed he really wanted me to come back, but he was careful to wind down our mutual interview with a take-it-or-leave-it air.

  • I think he really wanted to show off his budding doctor-to-be to the family.

  • He really wanted to spend a year down there with his Nikon, capturing the region's tentative processes of democratic transition.

  • I really wanted to be conciliatory, but the words came to suit themselves.

  • After hearing the price--for the property was a freehold--my father inquired if it was actually what Helen and I really wanted.

  • And then it came to me that what I really wanted second of all was to possess a body of Mekstrom Flesh, to be a physical superman.

  • What I really wanted was to find Catherine.

  • He did send them and he really wanted this.

  • I don't think it was physically, physical prevention because if he--I couldn't keep him from going out if he really wanted to.

  • I said, "If you had any courage or commonsense or really wanted to get at the facts, you would have called and asked me, too.

  • What he really wanted to know was how she felt about de Gobignon.

  • What he really wanted to know was whether she loved him or not.

  • Was Sicily what he really wanted--or perhaps even all of Italy?

  • Father always said that if we really wanted to do right we could find the way.

  • She sometimes envied his ease in getting on with people when he chose; and his boldness in speaking to fellow guests and fellow travellers, if he really wanted anything.

  • Anger lay very close to disappointment, and soon won the victory over the conjectures her small ingenuity could devise to account for Arthur's absence on the supposition that he really wanted to come, really wanted to see her again.

  • The innkeeper declared that he really wanted to go to Oakbourne, and might as well go to-night; he should have all Monday before him then.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "really wanted" 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:
    advance upon; black fellows; chopped fine; country houses; crude sugar; great flocks; important part; its power; large areas; made also; must endeavour; now known; other banks; primary battery; really cannot; really good; really great; really know; really meant; really only; really think; really thought; really very; really want; really was; relieve pain