How to Use for (the) want of in a Sentence

for (the) want of

phrase

• The game is a mix of humor and, for want of a better word, murder.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
• This notion of free will, for want of a less provocative word, is nothing but a myth.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• True, no one goes to the barricades just for want of a Mercedes-Benz.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• School bus services are being canceled and delayed for want of drivers.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• That amendment failed for want of support from any other council member.
  — Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
• That is not for want of effort by Britain’s conservative tabloids.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• There are no treatments that address the genetic cause of the disease, but not for want of trying.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• This is, for want of a better term, a quietly startling vehicle to drive.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Apr. 2021
• Neither hears the truth, as often as is wholesome, and both suffer for the want of the corrective.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• If public transportation had to cut service for want of fares, the city would grow unfriendly to work.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Pants ride lower and shirts cling tighter for want of a perch, but there’s something to be said for a loose shirt free to snatch a breeze on your behalf.
  — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• There’s a ferocity when its needed, and there’s something regal, for want of a better word, about her.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
• The enclave’s sole power plant shut down Wednesday afternoon for want of fuel.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• The perception is that there is a, for want of a better expression, a code switching that people lean into.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• That was a time when actually people needed a bit of—for want of a better word—humor and silliness and joy and irony.
  — Vogue, 29 May 2022
• His brother Perry is drifting into drug abuse for want of a religious center.
  — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
• Patients died for want of oxygen, and corpses were cremated in parks and parking lots as crematoriums ran out of space.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• The disconnect seemed, for want of a better way of putting it, dimensional—a disturbance in the cosmos.
  — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Moctezuma is a capricious ruler who executes courtiers for minute breaches of protocol and who might just lose an entire kingdom for want of a horse.
  — Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• But mathematicians couldn’t come up with counterexamples, and not for want of trying.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
• Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, is drying out for want of rain.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The charges were eventually dismissed for want of prosecution.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2022
• Banning cars from some roads merely increased traffic on others; local businesses were dying for want of customers; the disabled could not get about.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• Liverpool’s relative lack of success from corners isn’t for want of creativity.
  — Andy Jones, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
• Christopher Esber is a good example of playing between dress-up moments and moments where things can be, for want of a better word, simpler.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
• Too many Americans have been forced to rely on smartphones for want of better internet options during the pandemic.
  — Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• There are hundreds of similar stories of people being denied meaningful careers for want of the government’s permission to work.
  — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• According to court documents, the domestic violence charge, a misdemeanor, was dismissed for want of prosecution.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2024
• By that time, the grandiose progressive era had started to make way for punk, new wave and for want of a better word ‘stadium’ rock, or AOR as the radio programmers branded it.
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2022
• The anti-trust lawsuit against the Lathrop Company was dismissed in 1971 for want of prosecution.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020