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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This perhaps wasn’t the start to his Olympic career that he wanted.
From Los Angeles Times
He hired her and, she says, wanted a commissioner with a background in online safety, but also experience in the tech sector itself.
From BBC
She said she came out of retirement with a partially replaced right knee simply wanting an opportunity to put the perfect bow on her ski racing career at a course she especially loves.
From Los Angeles Times
"She must have seen her mother's talent as she walked through the house and she knew that she had that potential in her and wanted to go and show the world," said Saunders.
From BBC
Resigning from her post in the Independent Production Union, she said: "I do not want this situation to in any way harm the union."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
