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How to use the word Wanting in a Sentence?

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Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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What this research means is that having children in different or new ways does n’t actually interfere with how families function. Really wanting children seems to trump everything — that’s what really matters.

Susan Golombok

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1 year ago

Wanting pockets is a comment many women make about dresses. Pockets cost about $2 a garment. So adding that cost to the dress will make an impact, that $2 multiplies up to about $8 at retail and is one reason why value-centric retailers kept pockets out of the equation.

Marshal Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With young kids being able to watch a full 9 innings now… That’s one way to bring the younger generation into the game, make sure more kids are going to the ballpark, i think there’s a bunch of ways we can make a difference in making a lot of kids love baseball and grow up wanting to be big leaguers.

Alex Bregman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It does seem something of a coincidence that this is happening just as Ma seems comfortable returning. To me it suggests something that Alibaba has been wanting to do for some time, but has been waiting for the opportunity to do so.

Stuart Cole

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1 year ago

So, I’m in that camp of wanting to have these serious discussions because I know that many in my caucus don’t seem to be in that camp.

Joe Manchin

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1 year ago

Hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards.

David Oman

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1 year ago

We don’t want two strong candidates to shred each other and duke it out in the boxing ring and see the best man standing, hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee.

Kelley Koch

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1 year ago

Our generation often feels stuck between desperately wanting to help and feeling like there’s nothing we can do, i hope InternetActivism shows people how capable all of us are in creating real change in the world. It just requires you to think a bit differently. I’m so excited that we’re seeing real people find the shelter they need on our platform.

Will Depue

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think bone broth is getting some new attention now with grocery prices on the rise and people wanting to do more with less, i feel like it’s an easy entry point for some good DIY kitchen basics. If you’ve already roasted a chicken, just go ahead and throw that carcass in your pot or pressure cooker along with that random onion in the pantry and scraggly carrot in the fridge, and lo and behold, you’re going to save yourself some money and have broth that tastes better and is better for you than anything you’d buy.

Cassy Joy Garcia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reasons for doing this range from people wanting to know themselves more, to people who want to rest, reset and relax, to those who want to explore consciousness and deepen their meditation practice, when someone goes into the darkness, all these things that were important to them like money, fame, power, status, being worthy – they all become insignificant and meaningless in the dark.

Scott Berman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether you’ve heard a lot about AI, just a little or maybe even nothing at all, all of those segments of the public are really in the same space, they echo this sentiment of caution of wanting to move carefully in AI adoption in health care.

Alec Tyson

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1 year ago

We are wanting to say — ‘we’ being a lot of different people — that he gets us, [Jesus] understands us. He loves who we hate. I think we have to let the public know and create a movement.

Hobby Lobby

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1 year ago

I think there was a balancing dance of not wanting to create stigma, in terms of who is actually the highest rates of transmission without being forthright.

Tony Hoang

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1 year ago

This is something we have done in the past with other organizations, if you choose to use the images of guns in the future and would like to plan an event under our Freedom of Expression Act or host a Controversial Event, we can have that conversation, but because you are just wanting to table this week, these are my requirements. If these changes can not be made, then you will not be allowed to table on campus tomorrow.

Student Organizations Sarah Giacomini

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I want to do one kind thing, for at least one person every day. I might not be able to help everyone, or save the world. But I could make somebody's day, help someone into wanting to do that same thing. And that, is beautiful.

Anonymous

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1 year ago

One thing I had to realize, in not wanting the death penalty for Dylann Roof, is that you can’t pick and choose, it needs to be abolished across the board.

Sharon Risher

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1 year ago

I’m one of those people that never really looked back. I only recall that when someone asked me after I became an astronaut, all I remember is just kind of keeping my nose to the grindstone and wanting to do the best I could as — I didn’t realize at the time, but that was because I always wanted to be better prepared for the next step. I’ve always been looking to the future. I don’t live in the past.

Walter Cunningham

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1 year ago

We don’t have staff yet. We don’t have committees even populated, a lot of them talk about wanting to empower the membership more. Well, why wouldn’t they respect what the membership voted on?

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They’re trying to destroy Herschel to deter young men and women of color from being Republicans. If they destroy Herschel, it will deter people of color from wanting to be conservative Republicans because you just have your life ruined.

South Carolina

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1 year ago

Experience helps you understand what works and what doesn’t. And (personally), I think it has more to do with just wanting to continue to learn on and off the ice. … Whether it’s, you know, skills on the ice or trying to learn how to be a better teammate, better leader, better friend, you name it.

Sidney Crosby

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1 year ago

Start praying like this and you’ll see. Not “some way to sleep with her” - but a way to stop wanting to. Not “some way to get rid of him” - but a way to stop trying. Not “some way to save my child” - but a way to lose fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

He is someone that is open to hear us. The fact that he is here today wanting to talk to us Hispanics, wanting to hear about us, it makes a strong statement.

Hector Rodriguez

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1 year ago

The first thing you do is support law enforcement, and unfortunately, the lieutenant governor has not done that. He has a record of wanting to defund the police – I know he doesn’t necessarily use that word, but he has a long history of being supported by people leading the effort to defund, he uses code words. Like Cori Bush said, talks about ‘reallocate over bloated police budgets.’ He said it pains him to see fully funded police budgets. That’s his views.

Ron Johnson

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1 year ago

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