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Example sentences for "want some"

  • I am hungry, and I want some of Dinah's pie, but I'd like to stay out longer.

  • I want some account of yourself, of My lady, (shall we never directly correspond?

  • I want some account of her spirits, health, amusements, of the womanly accomplishments of Maria, and the opening graces of Louisa: of yourself I wish to have some of those details which she is much more likely to transmit.

  • I don't want to be backed," said Carmen; "I want some sympathy.

  • He'll want some place to go to in the summer.

  • You'll want some fattin' 'fore you's good enough for a bile, let alone a roast.

  • I want some breakfast,” said Bill when he had waited half an hour; and as he spoke he pointed to his mouth, and worked his teeth, to illustrate his argument.

  • I want some of the civil guard before he goes; and they will be here in the course of a couple of hours.

  • I want some sort of an excitement, and I’m going to have it too, if I am sent home in some ship–of–war in irons.

  • And I want some pie," echoed Phronsie, hearing the last words, and smoothing down her pink apron.

  • Oh, yes, I do want some pie," declared Joel, vehemently.

  • I can't bring many, Joe, an' Polly'll want some in her garden.

  • Now I want some reading, and I must pay a man so much an hour to come and do it for me.

  • Please, sir," replied Oliver, "I want some more.

  • Now, hurry up, for I want some help to capture that fellow.

  • We want some planks, a few hammers, and a saw down in the engine-room," he said.

  • I want some lengths of cable for the engine-room," Hal answered.

  • So he took his bowl and said to it, "Bowl, I want some water," and then it filled with water.

  • Does a woman often come and say to you, 'I want some money to pay for meal or some groceries, and I wish you would give me so much?

  • This year I sent £11 for a tenant to be lodged in one of the banks in Lerwick, and when I handed him the deposit receipt, he said, 'Perhaps it will not be long before I want some of this again.

  • I hear that Lawry owns a steamboat, and I didn't know but he'd want some help.

  • I wonder if Mr. Sherwood don't want some shares in the Meteor Oil Company.

  • I want some morphium to soothe meself down.

  • I want some morphium," she says, "to soothe meself down.

  • My missus is a decent woman, and I don't wish 'er no 'arm; but Gawd knows as I want some sleep be this time.

  • We want some cake, We want some tea, We want some pie, Eee!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "want some" 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:
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