Sentence examples for wannabe it from inspiring English sources

Out of the mouth of an X Factor wannabe, it might sound glib, but from a striking, unpretentious talent, it is just what you hope to hear.

But though it may be an SLR wannabe, it's a contender nonetheless.

But as I talk to him about his second feature film as a director, The Wannabe, it seems to me that writing a character and directing someone else playing his life hits a little closer to home for this artist.

If anyone calls you a wannabe, it's because they're either jealous, or they just don't understand.

STYLE MAP / CHRISTOPHER STREET Now that Bleecker Street has been colonized by Marc-wearing, cupcake-eating Carrie Bradshaw wannabes, it was only a matter of time before the guys – gay, straight, other – headed back to Christopher Street.

RELATED: More movie reviews by The Times As moviegoers continue to nurse our collective hangover from '90s Miramax-sponsored Tarantino wannabes, it's understandable that Walsh and Brookes opted for a tonic update.

The obstacle, as he defined it, existed in the souls of sociable men or wannabe bourgeois: it was the insatiable craving to secure recognition for one's person from others, which leads "each individual to make more of himself than of any other".

Most women have to ward off horny creatures on a daily basis, but the one that Phoenix teenagers Brynne, Tess and Savannah contend with isn't a high school quarterback, or a fist-pumping Jersey Shore wannabe -- it's the devil.

I think I even saw an orange-skinned Jersey Shore Snookie wannabe, but it might just have been a Halloween costume.

Each wannabe struts it out, pausing at the end of the runway to caress the shirtless male model who happens to be lazily chilling there.

The irony of Saturday's vote is that Austin is a Silicon Valley wannabe, so it was expected to take Silicon Valley's approach to regulation: that rules are for other guys, not for companies determined to change the world.