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Example sentences for "should want"

  • Oh, yes;--if it were only for myself I should want nothing.

  • And if I had a husband I should want a good one,--a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart.

  • In the first place, I should want my husband to be a gentleman.

  • We can have him by sending for him, if we should want it.

  • That he should want to get Mountjoy out of the way is intelligible.

  • I should want to look at you the first thing, to see how you looked.

  • And I should want to be naughty sometimes.

  • And I should want to do something for you for giving me eyes.

  • I should want to keep right there and see to things.

  • Of course he should want potatoes, and it was high time they were planted.

  • I wish I'd done what we talked of at first an' gone to the Astor House, but that young man in the cars told me 't was remote from the things we should want to see.

  • If it can't be a puffectly even thing, all round, I d' know as I should want it to be at all.

  • On the face of it there a'n't very much to her that would make anybody think but what we was after it; and I should want it pootty well undastood that we wa'n't that kind.

  • I don't feel as if I should want Clem to look at it in that light.

  • But I should want you to know that in many things my life has been very, very different from yours.

  • At any rate, if I were to write a story, I should want to take the slightest sort of plot, and lay the scene in the dullest kind of place, and then bring out all their possibilities.

  • We should want to introduce a little gold here and there.

  • I don't know whether, if I had so much of a nose, I should want it all Roman.

  • Seems to me, if I had his health and his education, I should want to strike out and do something for myself.

  • We should want to brush our clothes, but all the clothes-brushes would be so huge that we could not lay hold of them nor sustain their weight; and a clothes-brush would be handed to us if we wanted to brush our nails.

  • If we ever had to go away from here--if anything happened to us--it's the one thing I should want to keep and take with me.

  • I should want you to like me, Cynthy, whatever you thought of me.

  • If I were a rose, I should want to go back," said Jeff.

  • That will only be a part of what we should want to do," Caroline said; "but it would be rather important to have the clergyman on our side.

  • I should want somebody I could be more equal with.

  • Ah, that's when I thought I should want to make money--you know.

  • Yes," said Colville; "only I should want a good while to say it.

  • If a ghost appeared to me I should want him to prove it by at least two other reliable, disinterested witnesses before I believed my own account of the matter.

  • Of course I should want to be tolerably old if I did.

  • Westover said he had no doubt they were, and he should want to see all the letters they could show him, in print and out of print.

  • I should want to think about it," said Whitwell.

  • The time had almost come, he thought, when he should want food, not to stimulate his body, but to cease its action entirely.

  • If I had a hungry boy to keep, I should want a lot of housekeeping money, though I can make a penny do the work of three halfpence.

  • But as I am, poor and lonely, and pretty miserable too, I feel I should want to bite and scratch if any one came to do me a favour.

  • I am not such a wonderful beauty, nor such a witch, that everybody who sees me should want to--to marry me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should want" 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:
    guard duty; made effective; safety first; should appear; should certainly; should come; should endeavour; should fall; should hate; should haue; should hope; should like very much; should lose; should meet; should much; should not; should not have been; should probably; should propose; should rather; should read; should see; should seek; should still; should walk; slight gesture