Sentence examples for wanted a son from inspiring English sources

Daric Davis wanted a son.

("My father wanted a son," she would say, "but he got me").

Consequently, my father wanted a daughter and her mother wanted a son.

Families wanted a son to bear the family name, to inherit property and to carry out funerary duties.

Her tradition-minded husband wanted a son, but she had a girl.

Money was tight; my parents had my sister and me, then my father wanted a son.

Perspective Carolyn Hax: He wants a son.

Everyone wants a son to help out in the fields.

I don't want a son... He'll have to go".

NJ has a son now, so I really want a son.

In Nadeem Aslam's "Leila in the Wilderness", a child bride's husband, wanting a son, kills the girls she produces.