Wanted
in sentence
6835 examples of Wanted in a sentence
I
wanted
to graduate college, and I just finished college.
I
wanted
to have, lastly, my own family and my own career.
The family part is kind of down the line, and my career part, I feel like I'm really doing well with it, considering the fact that when I decided I
wanted
to be a motivational speaker, I went home, I sat in front of my laptop, went to Google, and typed in: "How to be a motivational speaker."
And so I
wanted
to create an image of a silent catastrophe.
And I became a poetry critic because I
wanted
to know how and why.
It would not be the first time a poet had written the poem that he
wanted
to hear.
I just heard that there were these scandalous writers called Language poets who didn't make any sense, and I
wanted
to go and see for myself what they were like, and some of them didn't do much for me, but this writer, Rae Armantrout, did an awful lot, and I kept reading her until I felt I knew what was going on, as I do with this poem.
There was a 16-year-old girl, she had brain surgery, and she was conscious because the surgeons
wanted
to talk to her.
I listened to some gay commentator say that the African-American community was notoriously homophobic, and now that civil rights had been achieved for us, we
wanted
to take away other people's rights.
And I
wanted
to capture some of this incredible change that was happening, and as luck or politics would have it, another marriage battle started gearing up, this time in Maryland, where African-Americans make up 30 percent of the electorate.
And when I was 15, a member of my local community approached my parents and
wanted
to nominate me for a community achievement award.
They
wanted
her low.
They
wanted
her to be more like them.
Oh, they
wanted
her bland.
They
wanted
her face down, ass up, hands cuffed and ankles strapped.
They
wanted
her knowing she could never want them back.
Oh, they
wanted
her holy, baptized in her divine, they
wanted
her secrets, pearls to swine.
They
wanted
to unravel the mystery of her design.
Oh, they
wanted
her complete.
They
wanted
her whole, though they came fractioned, half-hearted, half-soul, with no regards and no knowledge as to who she really was.
This is who I was, but this is who I
wanted
to be: Angelina Jolie.
And I
wanted
to be just like her, so I started spending a lot of time on hacker chat rooms and online forums.
And my son
wanted
to know, "What did he say?
And when it comes to tobacco, I couldn't think of anything that I
wanted
less.
Twenty-five years ago, when I was a young pup, very optimistic, we
wanted
to design a park in downtown Oakland, California for the homeless people.
We
wanted
a bathroom.
We
wanted
horseshoes, barbecue pits, smokers, picnic tables, shelter and all of that.
One of the things that happened after that experience is that I thought about the other men who were incarcerated alongside of me, and how much I
wanted
to share this with them.
And so I started talking to them about some of their experiences, and I was devastated to realize that most of them came from the same abusive environments, And most of them
wanted
help and they
wanted
to turn it around, but unfortunately the system that currently holds 2.5 million people in prison is designed to warehouse as opposed to rehabilitate or transform.
So we
wanted
to find some better source of data.
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