Sentence examples for want of something from inspiring English sources

62 mins: For want of something better to report, this from Dan MacCarthy: "With Mista clearly the best player on the pitch, do you agree that Valencia coach Rafael Benitez's favourite film must be the Clint Eastwood flick Play Mista For Me?" Valencia subsittution: Pablo Aimar the Argentine replaces Francisco Rufete.

Well that's for want of something to say but yeah, I always liked it when Sinatra said that.

Hashem comes to this library a few times a week, for want of something better to do.

For a week, the most I could do was flick through the stacks of magazines that my mother-in-law had brought down on the train, and bought each day in the hospital shop for want of something to do.

When Hummel indulges in formulaic sequences or lapses into fugal writing for want of something better to do, Ms. Keene plays on with undiminished vitality, never making a joke of it.

There remains a strange disjunction between the soul-baring singer and the woman calmly telling us that "the blues is just a good woman feelin' bad," or "the blues are a way out of where you are, and they can drag you to where you're going," or "it's the want of something that gives you the blues, man".

If you want less of something, tax it".

SARA PENTLICKY Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 2012 To the Editor: "If you want more of something, subsidize it.

They are a clumsy way to solve externality problems:  if you want less of something, tax it.

Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something".

Then he said, "Hey, you want something of hers?" The man seemed confused.