Sentence examples for were not wanting from inspiring English sources

That summer, we were not wanting for anything.

In each of these cases, the authorities were not wanting for data.

People who were there were not wanting to go home again.

Notwithstanding the grim aspects of Van Diemen's Land, aspiration and learning were not wanting.

Though they were not wanting for moisture, the short ribs played well with all of the restaurant's three sauces: the Southern-sweet brown sugar-chili; the tomato-ey, smoky and ready-for-the-supermarket-shelves "joint sauce"; and the vinegary and spicy jalapeño.

Buyers were not wanting, but even then, as now, they universally liked lucky bargains; and the highest price offered to one of the acquaintances of Dandie Dinmont for the castings of his carefully tended ewes was two-and-twenty pence per head.

Many were not wanted in their own countries.

Certain features were not wanted by the respondents.

"Those kids are not wanting for anything.

They're not wanting ice cream".

I'm not wanting to be obedient".