want ad

Example Sentences

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It was a want ad in the newspaper that started Storen’s pro path.

From Washington Times • May 7, 2020

It all started with a want ad in a newspaper for ice cream truck drivers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2016

I answered a want ad in a New York paper 15 years ago.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2015

Wild persimmons, cakes and cookies, a wall of KitchenAid mixers, a scribbled want ad: all reasons to follow her, and probably eat at Cooks County even more than you already do. 

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2014

Dear Sir: I am a constant reader of the "Chicago Defender" and in your last issue I saw a want ad that appealed to me.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various