want
Usage
What are other ways to say want?
The verb want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace. Wish implies the feeling of an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation.
Example Sentences
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I wa’n’t more than ten feet from the cruiser when she hit it.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
My horse wa'n't fit to travel, and I couldn't hire another, not until after the blacksmith had had his supper.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
"If I wa'n't afraid General Jackson would get me and hang me for a spy, I'd run away, and so would this Sergeant, and we'd join his cavalry."
From Four Years A Scout and Spy by Downs, E. C.
"There wa'n't no peace at all, sir, so long as Mr. Williams were here; when he were gone there wa'n't so many of them, an' we got a rest, which I were mighty thankful for."
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
"It's lucky then that you wa'n't staying with Aunt Polly Barksdale."
From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary
Vocabulary lists containing want
"A Modest Proposal," Vocabulary from the satire
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 2
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