Sentence examples for needed something as from inspiring English sources

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Coward understood as clearly as Virginia Woolf did that he needed something, as she invidiously wrote in her diary, to "save him from being as clever as a bag of ferrets & as trivial as a perch of canaries".

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If we do not need bodies to communicate or bookstores to buy books, the intuition beckons, why would we need something as mundane as power cords?

"This shows that you don't need something as complex as choice to get some of the behaviour you see in ants.

The point is phones are tearing us apart (Lisa!) and making us lonely, so you need something as goofy as a glass with a notch cut out of the bottom just to stay sane.

Unlike states such as California, New York does not have a law on the books guaranteeing that pregnant women cannot be pushed out of their jobs just because they need something as simple as a stool to sit on to maintain a healthy pregnancy.

Accidents happen, and you don't know when someone will need something as simple as a bandage or as serious as penicillin.

Asked whether he would be prepared to accept a deal without a ban on EU migrants claiming benefits for four years, Cameron said he would need something at least as "potent and powerful" as that.

To keep it fully "Velvet," though, Del Rey needs something as vague and weird as "Video Games," with its ungrateful and lazy love object, the un-American slob who keeps ignoring the leading lady.

You always need something as a kid that is kind of too much for you to handle, that makes you say, "I hope we don't get caught with this".

Once you feel you "need" something, as in you want it so badly that you'd do almost anything to get it, and it's something that only someone else can give to you (i.e. someone else's approval, regard, or affection) you essentially put your happiness completely in someone else's control.

"Kids were finding that they couldn't just drop into a big park and ride those features, and ski schools needed something to use as a teaching tool," said Jim Mangan, lead terrain park designer at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah.

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