Use "wanting" in a sentence

1. Me, wanting a better life not only for myself and my children, but me

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2. wanting a better life for you and your children and their children, that motivates me

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3. They're about the size of a large house cat, they're called mindunes and there were at least a dozen on the building, including the one on this railing wanting its chin scratched

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4. After that man hit him while he was on the job, I remember wanting to find that man and murder him

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5. I watch him and keep my mouth shut, not wanting to disturb him

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6. I can't see them wanting to keep her job open while the police investigate her innocence

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7. yes, I have a sort-of motive for wanting Joanna out of the way

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8. It has been a long day … the Inspector put me through a pretty intensive interrogation … wanting to know everything about Joanna and Dan

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9. Typical bloody Dan Sadler! Wanting to have his cake and eat it …

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10. We are all the time comparing the characteristics of men and women and wanting them to be same

11. ’ I admitted, not wanting to go into details about how I dealt with it … that could be a little awkward

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12. I can’t hear what she is saying at the other end, but I would be willing to bet it is something along the lines of not wanting to disturb him

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13. I saw the other candidate and, without wanting to sound big headed, there really was no argument! She was built like a brick privy, as the saying goes!

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14. ”…You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;”

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15. He hung back a bit, not wanting her to think he was tailing her or anything

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16. Not wanting to sound ungrateful, I quickly add a Thank you

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17. "Only if they don't surrender," Haadij Doesshef said, wanting to regain the conversation without confronting the theocrat

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18. I did as I was told and then stepped gingerly over my breakfast tray, not wanting to spoil the dubious pleasures that awaited me on my return from my ablutions

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19. A haughty spirit has caused some Christians to be puffed up and high-minded wanting to

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20. The Kid was a gentle soul, I felt sure, and I found myself suddenly wanting him close by me again

21. As we have both had several glasses of wine, there are high jinks while we do this, spluttering as we try to suppress our laughter several times … not wanting to have to explain to Wally and Rose

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22. Not wanting to raise demons, I don’t mention my throwing up

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23. I've been wanting to show you something

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24. He wondered if in some way this was payback for wanting his love-mate to have a soul

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25. things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee” (Titus 1:5)

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26. A part of me, the lingering essence of the creature in the box, wanted to lash out at him, but I kept my calm, breathing slowly, not wanting to antagonise the beast

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27. If faith is simply a belief or value that we hold to, then we will be found wanting

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28. Normally, Abram would be the one to offer, but the story ends with Melchizedek wanting to offer to Abram

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29. This is not God just wanting real estate

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30. wanting a lover who loves with careful abandon,

31. Alan splashed across the stream on his crutch and sat next to her, not wanting a loud conversation to get Desa up before she was ready

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32. He found himself wanting to please her

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33. At ten years of age wanting to be an entertainer is a sign of talent

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34. The opposite is wanting with no action and the result is stress, struggling, hard work and going nowhere

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35. What did this have to do with how the world turned? Why did it matter? Is that what yaag gave her, the ability to not have every imperfection in the world her personal problem with the whole population lined up wanting to know why this imperfection still existed? Why is it her problem? Because she was the daughter of the wizard?

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36. The dull emptyness sometimes attacked her when she kept it down to two, she was already wanting one when she first woke up, especially on a Nightday when she'd slipped badly the Afternoonday before

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37. "Thanks," she said and leaned closer, wanting contact

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38. " She got up from him, not wanting to get to thinking about Earth a lot, she changed the subject

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39. The way down the hill is steep and in places the surface of the track is slippery with mud so we take it carefully, not wanting to damage our ggs

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40. "Try me," Thom said, trying to sound unaffected, but not wanting to show his med panel just yet

41. But he hadn't, he'd gone over the impactor's course corrections, just wanting to finish that up and get it done

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42. I believe you are sincere in wanting to help us

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43. Duncan looked at Tarak and then cocked his head to the side and continued, “I think that it is their loss, and they are fools for not wanting to make peace with you

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44. Just when her faith was beginning to crack under the intense pressure of wanting, of needing, she was suddenly and wonderfully rewarded

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45. To his surprise, Duncan found himself wanting to be alone with her; and when Naria winked at him and rubbed his leg under the table; he smiled devilishly in reply

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46. I think more than wanting to be them, he wanted them to win

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47. He added, '1 made the same mistakes, wanting to kill myself for the game I

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48. "What were you before?" he asked, not wanting to argue the point because he never thought there was much distinction anyway

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49. Maybe I’m fastidious, but I couldn’t imagine wanting to watch someone else at it

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50. She could imagine Bishop Rendellyn wanting to do this to her, but she knew he would have tried to encapsulate her via prayer, and had to have acolytes actually maintain the user settings for his universe

51. known without wanting to

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52. ‘I’ve been wanting to say something for a while now, but you had that pillock on the scene …’ He went on hesitantly

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53. Not wanting to dive into more research, I pull up the drafts I have written so far and go through them editing the information and tweaking the grammar so that it reads better

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54. seems as though he has been wanting to for some time, but it wasn't until Kevin was off the scene that he got round to it

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55. To her surprise they set it afire wanting nothing of their former Lord

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56. Sheila doesn’t say what it was they argued about, but I get the impression that it may have been something to do with Don wanting to help Bunty out … Bunty’s fatal attraction coming home to roost again no doubt

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57. crack under the intense pressure of wanting, of needing, she was

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58. “And you’ll never hear people wanting to be Asian or Black

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59. Police arrived in minutes and arrested the youths who were ranting about wanting to fuck the whores

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60. ‘Have you found yourself a wife yet?’ she whispered, not wanting to scare the bird away

61. She’d wrung its neck hastily, not wanting to hear any more, and had dropped the corpse on the mud, brushing the bits of feather off her hands almost frantically

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62. Not wanting to go through Chas’s belongings, she had nagged Ozzie until he did something with the bits and pieces lying around in that room, then scrubbed it as though trying to obliterate every last memory of the man

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63. Although why anyone wanting to expose themselves outside Green Lanes would do it at seven-thirty on a Sunday morning is a mystery to me

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64. But in spite of her rebuffs, Jorma had persisted like an Earth man, letting her slip into the familiar role of the man wanting more and the woman striving to deny

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65. “It’s shit on the table now,” she said, not forgiving him, but not wanting conflict since she wanted his cooperation on the boat sheet issue

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66. James hesitated, clearly not wanting to lie outright … clearly Chas had told him about it in a public place, the Inspector concluded

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67. Marjorie chattered on with hardly a break, wanting to know the

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68. The idiot had even swallowed the line about them wanting to preserve Chas’s good name … that was a joke!

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69. The proctor checked his watch, wrote the start and end times on the cover, then slid the envelope away from him as if wanting to distance himself from it

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70. Roman looked around again wanting the ovation

71. It was stitched with care into the thick leather, wanting to be seen, but at

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72. anymore and that was okay because at least it was them not wanting me, instead of

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73. He could also picture her being quite interested and wanting to talk to them herself

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74. Harry spent the next half an hour explaining his motives and actions over the last twelve hours---his wanting to be more of a real contributor to the Waterhouse firm, his apprenticeship, his graduation from Malvern

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75. wanting to stop the same thing as sorry?

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76. He was trembling with a long overdue wanting, She’d let it go too far, she should’ve stopped it right from the start

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77. “Desa, there is nothing I could imagine wanting more

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78. " he looked up, with wanting eyes

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79. No clicking on a control, just wanting to look at it

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80. When evening came she wanted to leave, and the prince followed her, wanting to see into which house she went

81. They argued about how it's re-written anyway with Wuffs wanting it based on a much more mysterious chord

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82. see this phenomenon – not wanting to look a gift horse in

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83. warned me that this was what she’d been wanting all

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84. Klowa didn't stay for Afternoonday, not wanting to be in the way when the others of the household came home bushed, and wondering about Shinvei

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85. "Yeah," he mumbled distractedly, already feeling this was going to lead nowhere but not wanting to give up so easily

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86. He got up and went to the door, wanting to find out if his machine was safe here in his absence

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87. They reached the pass without rest and, not wanting

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88. In that long period of time, Fleetwood has been able to collect the prices of no more than eighty years ; so that four years are wanting to make out the last twelve years

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89. Despite his reasons for wanting to come here, he

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90. Not wanting to stray too far from the marine and his comforting presence

91. who had travelled so frequently through both countries, that every thing abounded in France, but that every thing was wanting in Spain

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92. ‘Richard,’ she whispered, not wanting her daughter

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93. been wanting to try on Friday and then come up with healthy alternatives for your busy days

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94. Brontes spent a moment to heal them, then flew at the giant; not wanting to squander the opportunity to attack him while he was yet in a vulnerable state

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95. focused as they are on the past or a future that hasn’t arrived (always wanting),

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96. your cannot redo the past in the present, and always wanting something in the

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97. But wanting to avoid trouble, Father skirted the island’s populated side

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98. I staggered toward the forest, not wanting to retch in front of my family

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