want to

Example Sentences

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Babies who breastfeed should get all the water they need from breast milk and don not need any extra, the NHS says - but they may want to feed more than normal.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

“I want to make movies about characters that I care about and worlds that I find exciting and that I feel that only I could do the way I want to do it,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

He said he didn’t want to be compared with Herbert Hoover, who was president during the 1929 market crash that led to the Great Depression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Now, I don’t want to be too fast and loose.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

They want to find ways to improve the conditions at Tala.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly