Sentence examples for badly wanting from inspiring English sources

Geraghty may sparkle and dazzle in the Guinness Premiership but he was found badly wanting at this level.

London is seen as both a crucible and template for cycling in other cities, and the worry is that Johnson's initial schemes may have been found badly wanting.

They simply object to the notion that there is one true way to do economics, especially after that apparently scientific method has been found so badly wanting.

Watford dealt with the initial cross from Defour but were found badly wanting when he gathered the loose ball, looked up and swept a perfect delivery towards Keane.

Badly wanting him to be a merchant of the horrific, they damn him for falling short, but is that really the profession that is inked on his passport?

Pure graphics: computer-generated imagery, writhing in anguish — in need of the sorcerer's stone, apparently, although it looked to me as if the forces of ultimate evil were badly wanting the men's room.

And she badly wanted to.

He badly wants his party's nomination.

I think they badly wanted to win.

Or not getting something you badly want.

I badly wanted to see a bear.