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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He wanted to create an Anywhere U.S.A. feel.
Of course, raising prices is a restaurant owner’s prerogative; many have no choice if they want to stay in business these days.
The process becomes more complex when researchers want to apply a logical operation such as a controlled-NOT gate between two logical qubits.
From Science Daily
In a separate post, Samuel suggested that Brady wants to be “the only one winning super bowls.”
From Los Angeles Times
“If parties want to drag this process out, the mechanisms exist within the administrative process that allow them to do so nearly indefinitely.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
