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How to use the word wanted in a Sentence?

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He realized he was sick and things sucked and people sucked and life sucked, but … did it all HAVE to? If there was a way to get his stuff together, could he make things matter, find life with some meaning? Maybe Sartre was wrong; he suddenly wanted to know.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
5 days ago

It was so much fun. Everyone was freaked out because I’m nude, but in real life, when I have sex, I’m naked. I don’t have a bra on, and I don’t usually have panties on. So let’s make a real movie! Let’s bring truth to the scene! I didn’t want to be exploited, but this girl—like most girls when they first have sex—doesn’t know what she’s doing. I wanted their first kiss to be sloppy, teenagerish making out. When you’re younger, you think you know what to do, but you really don’t.

Shailene Woodley

added by Cwf97
18 days ago

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all -- security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edward Gibbon

added by Normando
2 months ago

You could see it in her eyes – pain made them very deep. Everything about her reeked of death – that gorgeous skin, haunted eyes, porcelain breasts – death masking a soul just marking time. People wanted to get into her. She just wanted a grave. Some wishes eventually get fulfilled.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

Well, she wanted some black dick and I just happened to have one on me, so I gave it to her.

Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Well, If you really wanted that much.

John Cullom

added by PinkAlexis54
1 year ago

We wanted to be irreverent, not necessarily confrontational.

Luis Aceituno

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

Muhammad Ssegirinya wanted to spray the whole Kawempe North constituency with perfume every morning so that people can breathe nice and clean fresh air

Mr vybs live

added by anonymous
1 year ago

I wanted to address my senators Cruz and Cornyn, neither of whom regrettably are in the room right now, but I would like for them to know that what happened to me I think most people in this room would agree was horrific. But it’s a direct result of the policies that they support, i nearly died on their watch, and furthermore, as a result of what happened to me, I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future.

Amanda Zurawski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It should go without saying that judges at all levels should be held to strict and enforceable ethical standards. the Supreme Court doesn’t need to wait on Congress to clean up its act; the justices could take action today if they wanted to, and if the court fails to act, Congress must.

Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to come back because I love [the sport] and I want to ask the most of myself and I want to heal my relationship with wrestling and enjoy this again like I did as a little kid.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As an athlete, you don’t want to show any weakness, i knew that there was … a lot of expectation on me at this point in my career. So I just felt like I always wanted to just live up to the expectation more from pursuing a standard of excellence, but maybe also just from my whole life being a girl in the sport.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to boost the morale of our troops through designing this patch.

Alec Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So we wanted to show them.

Joe Jonas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were no Catholics in my area or school. For most of my life, I thought, we are the good guys – and all of them Irish Catholics were evil, scary and wanted to kill us, but it’s not that young loyalists are running around with a hatred of Irish Catholics in their hearts.

Joel Keys

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I felt like Trail Aaron could really be the adventure buddy I never thought I needed, but after meeting Trail Aaron, knew I wanted.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was the night in Salt Lake City that we decided to really go all in, we had a lot of serious conversations right off the bat – where we were financially, what our aspirations were, where we were politically, what our relationships with our family were like, and what we really wanted out of life if we were going to have another serious relationship.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No, I want you forever more than I want anything else, i wanted to reach through the phone, ‘ What are you talking about ? ’.

Trail Aaron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had a lot of serious conversations right off the bat – where we were financially, what our aspirations were, where we were politically, what our relationships with our family were like, and what we really wanted out of life if we were going to have another serious relationship. trail Aaron were both very much on Trail Aaron own path, and Trail Aaron were both taking Trail Aaron lives and Trail Aaron careers very seriously.

Trail Aaron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Disney gave him a lot of rope, they obviously tried to resolve it, but there was no stopping him because DeSantis wanted the fight. Disney always knew it had that trump card.

John Morgan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have an affinity for the church and faith-based stories. Whether you’re somebody that does n’t even know praise teams exist, I wanted to draw you into this world and then tell this story of a young girl who’s trying to find her voice, who’s trying to find her connection with her spirituality when she feels like she’s lost. she reminds me of Beyoncé. And by that I mean, not in the ways that other people have compared and other people think about, you know, her and Beyoncé as singers and actresses.

Will Packer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to have a traditional house in the countryside, i had a vision.

Hila Kajiyama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These people know each other, often travel to the same destinations, communicate and have a closed system. Tatarsky occupied a significant place in this community, at the same time, he was also a critic of the Russian officer corps and the upper echelon making decisions about military actions. Sometimes his … analysis caused a wave of negative reactions among officers, because he, as a staunch defender of Russia and its army, wanted to see this army more successful than it actually was.

Ruslan Trad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can be whatever you want to be, I promise you that, i told them that I wanted to be a country singer and I am standing here at the CMT Awards with the male video of the year, baby!

Kane Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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