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Example sentences for "would needs"

  • It has been a terrible rainy day, but so flattering in the morning, that I would needs go out in my new hat.

  • The Duke of Hamilton[9] would needs be witty, and hold up my train as I walked upstairs.

  • Having a tolerable genius when a youth, his friends put him apprentice twice, but to no purpose, for having got rambling notions in his head, he would needs go to sea.

  • I would needs be admitted into the dancing and vaulting schools; of which late activity one Stokes, the master, did afterward set forth a pretty book, which was published, with many witty elogies before it.

  • He would needs persuade me to go with him this morning to the Jesuits' College, to witness his polemical talent.

  • I would needs have a library, and mentioned several books, since some soldiers might possibly be studious, when they were at leisure to recollect.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would needs" 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:
    extremely fine; private detective; small holes; would accompany; would agree; would create; would get; would have been better; would have been difficult; would have been very; would have thee know; would know; would lose; would marry; would not have been; would remark; would ride; would succeed; would tell; would thou; would try; would wait; would walk; would willingly; would write; would you