Sentence examples for wanting was from inspiring English sources

Among those whose excuses were found wanting was a young high-school teacher who felt that his presence at the school was urgently needed.

A welcome note of irony and self-mockery suddenly found its way into Creighton's ponderous speaking style; his pronouncement that "at the end, every one of us will be tested, and every one of us will be found wanting" was delivered with deliberately hammy melodrama and offset with a nice little smile.

Amazingly, what you were wanting was waiting there, simply waiting for a shift to happen.

"I definitely didn't expect two nominations, and the one I was really, really wanting was that album nomination," she said of the category in which she'll compete with Maren Morris, Keith Urban, Sturgill Simpson and Loretta Lynn.

Perhaps if we are to answer the challenge of #MeToo, we must question how so many of our sons learned to believe that wanting was the only license taking ever required. .

Most importantly, this reduced wanting was fully reversed by RYGB surgery.

All we wanted was awareness.

"All I wanted was money.

All they wanted was money".

All I wanted was to be alone.

All I wanted was a good discount".