answer a need
Example Sentences
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It would be fairer to say that, like much else that is very old, it is on occasion taken out of the closet, dusted off, and put on display to answer a need.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015
Every object in the cabin was practical and had been made by hand on the spot to answer a need.
From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay
But, as I was going to say, about feeling differently, my experience is that there's always a good-sized party for the perverse, simply because it seems to answer a need in human nature.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean
