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Example sentences for "she wanted"

  • She wanted to borrow my forks and spoons to pawn them.

  • Did you ask her if she wanted to study law?

  • She wanted you to go because she was expecting me!

  • She wanted to send money to her and help support her.

  • She was always desirous of writing compositions, she wanted to be a story writer, she said, but her diction was very immature and her spelling was poor, making altogether a very mild production.

  • Before she went she had said she wanted to kill herself.

  • And there was Caddy Jellyby, with her head out of the window of a little carriage which she hired now to go about in to her pupils (she had so many), as if she wanted to embrace me at a hundred yards' distance.

  • I comforted her and would have raised her, but she cried no, no; she wanted to stay there!

  • She had no kind of grace about her, but the grace of sympathy; but when she condoled with the woman, and her own tears fell, she wanted no beauty.

  • She wanted him to know just how well she was doing.

  • She wanted to make some reference to their relations upon the train, but was too timid.

  • She wanted pleasure, she wanted position, and yet she was confused as to what these things might be.

  • She wanted to know what this peculiar action of his imported.

  • She wanted to tire them so that when she finally puzzled and fooled them and left them there, they would be too tired to go back to the Green Meadows.

  • Granny Fox, just as if she wanted to believe it, but couldn't.

  • Bowser the Hound, following every twist and turn which Granny Fox made, just as she wanted him to.

  • She wanted, that is to say, to retain my respect for as long as she lived with me.

  • She wanted to be a great lady, installed in Branshaw Teleragh.

  • She wanted, you know, to spare poor dear Edward's feelings.

  • She wanted to marry a gentleman of leisure; she wanted a European establishment.

  • She wanted to see how it would affect me.

  • And when she came to that choice spot where Soames had pitched his tent, she dismissed her cab, because, business over, she wanted to revel in the bright water and the woods.

  • She wanted to push him away from her, to try what anger and coldness would do, and again she dared not.

  • If she wanted to keep things from him--she must; he could not spy on her.

  • This was a more serious interruption than the other, because she never knew exactly what she wanted, and half a dozen requests would bolt from her, no one of which was clearly stated.

  • Accordingly, she waited a moment before opening the door; she wanted to feel her hands secure upon the reins of all the troublesome emotions which the sight of Ralph would certainly arouse.

  • A moment later he stepped briskly from his dressing-room, and observed that if she wanted to buy more oysters he thought he knew where they could find a fishmonger's shop still open.

  • She wanted to hear what he would say, to see how he would try to get out of the difficulty or flounder staggeringly through it.

  • She wanted you to look at them, and you have looked.

  • I told her I'd help her lay 'em if she wanted me to, but she said you was comin' with the hammer an' tacks.

  • She wanted him to talk about it, and the Lord knows he wanted to talk about himself.

  • She wanted me to quit the bunch and go live in her wikiup.

  • As if she wanted to--SCALP me, Aunt Phoebe!

  • She wanted to know where you were and what you were doing.

  • She wanted me to buy them--the old blackmailer!

  • She wanted them to come too; the more who came, the better she liked it.

  • He had told her he cared more for her than any girl he ever had met, and he had asked her to come here this summer and pay us a visit, so she wanted to know if he might.

  • She wanted to make a good impression on her pupils, to arouse their interest, and awaken their respect.

  • The land was paid for long ago; the house she had planned, builded as she wanted it; she had a big team of matched grays and a carriage with side lamps and patent leather trimmings; and sometimes there was money in the bank.

  • It wasn't me she wanted as much as--well, it was about like this.

  • She wanted to stay at home and study in the study.

  • She wanted him to reassure her; she looked at him pleadingly, not daring to ask for words of comfort but with all her nerves astrung to receive them: he had none to offer her.

  • She knew he had nothing to do; if she wanted him to come she would have asked him to.

  • The old lady's insatiable curiosity was eager for news from London: she wanted to know how Randal had amused himself when he was not attending to business.

  • She wanted to know the strange gentleman's name.

  • She wanted advice on this occasion also--and wanted it in the strictest confidence.

  • She wanted him to like her, to stay in that miserable village as long as she did, and keep her mind from stagnation--her thought went no further than that.

  • If she wanted Winfield to stay at home any particular morning or afternoon, she told him so.

  • He put the bell on a table within her reach and asked her to ring if she wanted anything.

  • She wanted no detail, no fact--she wanted no nearer vision of discovery or shame.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she 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:
    domestic and personal service; false name; first duty; four eyes; her master; judging from; patron saint; she called; she concluded; she couldn; she cried; she desired; she doesn; she explained; she faltered; she fell; she gazed; she might; she must; she put; she resolved; she seems; she wants; she were; shell from; shell shock