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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During the appearance, they were billed as Jackson’s secret “second family” and said that they were reluctant to come forward but wanted to “show the world who Michael really was.”
From Los Angeles Times
The congressman said the public wants the "context" and "details" of the image.
From BBC
Katie, who lives in London, applied for the job of delivering the government's presentations a decade ago because she wanted to help people from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university.
From BBC
"I was in shock. I was just so scared and I thought I was going to lose Snickers and I wanted to say thank you properly," Alexandra said.
From BBC
"This is a schism, even if they don't want to say that," Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford in England, told the BBC.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
