How to Use want in a Sentence

want

1 of 2 verb

• The motor wants a tune-up.
• Tell him that the teacher wants him.
• Do you want anything from the store?
• I just wanted a chance to rest.
• She wanted more time to finish the test.
• Do you want more coffee?
• You can choose whichever color you want.
• Thousands of poor people still want food and shelter.
• He wants a bicycle for his birthday.
• What do you want for Christmas?
• Who doesn’t want to live longer?
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
• Martha didn’t want to be a prude.
  — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• What draws you to want to play a course?
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 4 June 2026
• Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant.
  — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
• Who among us doesn’t want a gourmet kitchen?
  — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
• At the end of the day, just want to win.
  — Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
• How do the rest of you want to be seen?
  — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
• So who does or doesn’t want what, and why?
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
• Now men want to take me out and show me off.
  — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
• Folks in charge want to know what Nix thinks.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
• No one wants to make a mistake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
• No one wants to pay $70 for a short game.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
• With a dress this fun, who wouldn't want to serve up some looks?
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 23 May 2021
• Didn’t want to do that to anyone.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• But so many of the men want children now.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• Did anyone want to come up and take part?
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
• People come up to her and want to touch her.
  — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
• People didn’t even want to say it out loud.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• Those who do not want the drug do not have to get it, of course.
  — William G. Woods, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• What type of elite edge rusher do teams want?
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026

want

2 of 2 noun

• His attitude shows a want of proper respect.
• He is suffering from want of adequate sleep.
• Our work has to match the want.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
• Let the clock spring forward all its wants.
  — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 6 Mar. 2026
• Ball has the want and the feel to make plays, along with some of the means.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Fans by and large want to see lots of offense and lots of points.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• Yet to get off the mark but that's not for the want of trying.
  — SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• There is a genuine want to be around each other.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• The good thing was her wants and my wants were exactly the same.
  — Elizabeth Leonard, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2018
• But what do the dads who cook and feed people for a living want?
  — ABC News, 17 June 2026
• That last smoke proved elusive, but not for want of trying.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 June 2026
• How his mouth, unused to passing air, dried from want of use.
  — Jodie Briggs, Longreads, 27 Mar. 2018
• Keeping your staff on a salary is a need, but bonuses are a want.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• As for how many kids the duo want, Bieber had an answer for that.
  — PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2021
• Mi think mi have more control in terms of how mi want di music fi sound.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• But what if someone on leave wants to look for and/or apply for a new job?
  — Kathleen Furore, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Others claim that the want of jobs leaves those who commit these crimes no choice.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• These are more than reasonable wants.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
• Campbell would be the first to admit that right now, bars are a want but not a need.
  — Brooke Henderson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2020
• Our mom taught us the difference between the need and the want.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 10 Sep. 2016
• Do the Cavs want to trade down and go the big-volume approach?
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 20 June 2019
• Now the brothers- and sisters-in-law want to go out for brunch and hear all about the wedding.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• The goal is your comfort rather than bending yourself to the wants of strangers.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
• His want-to and love for football were the most intriguing things to me.
  — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• The sound didn’t so much echo as fill the space, for want of competition.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Your wants may not align with your budget while the moon and Mercury square off.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• And for want of that protein, the organism–you–may start to fall apart.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
• But that conversation can’t be about your wants.
  — Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2026
• Looking back, his own biggest want had once been for a world globe, and she had been thrilled to give him one.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
• The want to feel wanted is universal.
  — Maya Walsh-Little, SELF, 15 Dec. 2025