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Example sentences for "want the"

  • One doesn't want the man to be hurt, but he ought to be put down in some way.

  • And I want the colonel to give me his vote.

  • Ah, well, we don't want the idealist in politics,' muttered the colonel.

  • We want the aid of the people of Massachusetts, and we will appeal to their sense of right and justice.

  • I want the Senator's attention, for I am going to stick to him, and if he can get away from me he has got to obliterate the records of his country.

  • I, sir, will answer to Kentucky; I don't want the gentleman to come between me and the people of Kentucky.

  • I want the readers of this paper to be really happy Christians.

  • I want the Church of our age to be a praying Church.

  • I want the Christians of our day to be praying Christians.

  • I want the times we live in to be praying times.

  • I didn't say 'carbolic,' dear, I want the yellow soap.

  • Racing isn't what it used to be--it's on the square now, and we want the public to understand that.

  • I want the number to locate the man that parted--I wish there'd been more like him.

  • I don't want the horse--" began Porter; but Langdon interrupted him.

  • I want the law so that everybody can do just as he pleases on Sunday, provided he does not interfere with the rights of others.

  • I want the Christian, the Jew, the Deist and the Atheist to be exactly equal before the law.

  • No one would enjoy a sudden sunset--we want the clouds of gold that float in the azure sea.

  • I want the sunshine to get in and--and Uncle Theodore to--get out!

  • I want the child of you--I will hold it sacred and win the woman of you by and by.

  • She found a response which committed her to neither view; she only said, "We want the young--of course we want the young!

  • I don't want the gentlemen-doctors to get ahead of me.

  • We want the abnormal, the strong, the ugly, the unusual at least.

  • I understand those women who say they don't want the ballot.

  • I want the freedom of my own being, to be interested in everything in the world, to feel its life as men do.

  • We want the president of the class to be a fellow above suspicion in every way, and we want to ask you whether it is true that you were seen to cheat in the examination in English Thirteen?

  • He doesn't want the fellows to underdo; and he doesn't want them to overdo; and he keeps an eye on every boy in the school.

  • We want the cup, all right, but we want it on the square.

  • As a means to our work we want the suffrage.

  • Another reason why, as physicians, we want the ballot is that at present we need police protection.

  • Facts show that a large body of earnest, responsible women do want the ballot, a body large enough to deserve very respectful hearing from our law-makers, but there certainly are many women who do not yet want to vote.

  • Ruskin said: 'If you don't want the kingdom of heaven to come, don't pray for it but if you do want it to come you must do more than pray for it.

  • He closed a strong speech by saying: "We want the right of representation for all the people, women as well as men.

  • I don't want the hen, and you'll soon get it off your hands in the town, but I'll give you five shillings for the cow.

  • But now you'd best be off about your business, if you don't want the Troll to gobble you up; for here lives a Troll with three heads.

  • It seems that they want a correction on one of your statistics about the number of workingwomen in the United States who don't want the vote.

  • He said that you probably knew that women were unreasonable and hard to deal with and didn't want the bother.

  • Is that why you don't want the investigation?

  • I want the student to grasp the idea that the same thing may be very different when looked at, so to say, from opposite ends of the stick.

  • This perpetual Creativeness of the Spirit is what we must never lose sight of, and that is why I want the student to grasp clearly the idea of the Spirit's Self-contemplation as the only possible root of the Creative Process.

  • It is this underlying generic being of the thing, that I want the student to understand by "the soul of the subject.

  • Now I want the student to see clearly why making us incapable of wrong-thinking would involve a contradiction in terms, and would therefore be an impossibility.

  • Greenberg & Sen want your trade, Aaron; they don't want the boy.

  • I don't want the money to get married on," Sternsilver protested.


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