have need of
Example Sentences
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God created differences, Winthrop avowed, so that “every man might have need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the Bonds of brotherly affection.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018
Wilde sees such hero-worship as a dangerous delusion but also, more crucially, an unfair burden: “It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love,” he writes.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2018
“Oh we do, Norbert. We will always have need of you. In fact, you'll start being reprinted once the Gaia exits the gate.”
From Nature • Jul. 28, 2015
We no longer have need of that quaint hypothesis.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015
“We do have need of one thing,” said Bono.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
