Sentence examples for wanted why from inspiring English sources

Whoever was on afternoon duty would surely ask them what they wanted, why they were here in Founder's Quad, where visitors never were without a reason.

(When he asks him what he makes of critics who say he wanted to go to war, Mr. Cheney shuts him down with dry sarcasm. "Wanted? Why, 'cause we like war?") Mr. Cheney, who uses the pronoun "I" so assertively that when he says "we," it sounds like the royal first-person pronoun, doesn't play down his authority in the Bush White House.

If mice, geese and guppies could extend their life span 40 to 50percentt by eating 40percentt less than they wanted, why couldn't he? "I'm definitely not one of these guys who says, 'Ooo, 18 more years and I can retire,' " said Mr. Sherman, 46, who runs a biotech company in California near his Silicon Valley home.

If that's what you wanted, why didn't you say?" But we don't trust Hollywood any longer to know us, the mood or the moment, because for years the movie makers thought that the 17-year-old mind was the heart of America, that we wanted pictures as frivolous and dumb as "Pearl Harbor".

If Vermont did everything that Ocasio-Cortez, McKibben, Sanders, and other Green New Deal advocates wanted, why have its emissions risen so sharply?

Help Wanted: Why Willing Workers Aren't Filling Open Jobs.

If it's quiet that you want, why not try instead lofty Volterra, west of San Gimignano?

Castells notes that these movements endlessly debate: who we are, what we want, why.

"We allow people to do whatever they want, why can't he?

If you want, why not put a filler in?

You must be sure of what you want, why you want it, and why that particular program can help you.