Sentence examples for wanted like most from inspiring English sources

But they simply wanted, like most architects today, to entertain us.

He replied, "Nonsense, I may have expressed for them their own illusion of being disillusioned, but that did not form part of my intention". He did not want to be the poet of a "lost generation" of war survivors, but rather, he wanted, like most poets, to write for all ages.

Zūm Founder Ritu Narayan built the Silicon Valley career she wanted, but like most parents, still spent too much time preoccupied with rides for her kids.

I grew up in a secular Jewish home where we spent Christmas Eve eating Chinese food and going to the movies; we had no tree, and even though I wanted one (like most Jewish kids) I was informed by my father that having one smacked of idolatry, and hadn't I seen The Ten Commandments and understood the whole idolatry-golden-calf problem?

That would mean a pay cut that Sehorn certainly does not want; Sehorn, like most players, would prefer to avoid being named the franchise player.

A guy like you; who reversed engineered a game console... because he bought and owned the game console... and thought he should be able to do with it what he wants... like most normal people would think.

Suddenly Mr. Axelrad no longer seemed like "the baddest, most wanted, most feared".

She just wanted to know, like most of the rest of the country, why it was possible for someone to spout this hatred legally.

He wanted to live like most South Africans, far from the troubles of the shacks, and he was saving money to move his wife and their 5-year-old son away from Diepsloot.

Our daughter wanted down, and like most toddlers, she squirmed and twisted until she was able to free herself.

Mr. Brown and his fellow Democrats argue that the problem is not that the state is spending too much, but that the revenues are not enough to pay for services that most citizens want, like schools and programs for the needy.