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
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
In 1985, they found one in Mr. Obama, a fledgling community organizer in New York who answered a want ad for a job with the Developing Communities Project.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2014
The above innocent appearing want ad in The Bee, although alluring in its prospects to a young woman desiring a summer vacation, is the principal factor in the arrest of one M. W. Williams, etc.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Hyde, Grant Milnor
