How to Use would in a Sentence

would

verb
  • Nice catch from the rookie, but would still like to see more YAC.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • There are all sorts of reasons that would be a bad idea.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2022
  • How would use of this app make a different in a renter's life?
    Rachel King, Fortune, 17 July 2022
  • The execution would be the first of three in the coming months in Missouri.
    Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • So my advice would be to get in touch with your own emotions first.
    Calie Schepp, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • To remove Snyder, 75 percent of them would have to vote for it.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • The top suspects would likely be the very places where home prices are already falling the fastest.
    Lance Lambert, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The fourth would be the execution of the actual event: the game itself and all that comes with it.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • If Jackson works out as a running back, would a move back to QB make sense?
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Taylor looked unsure at times, unable to trust where the holes would open.
    The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And that is what would be so tragic about the demise of freedom in America.
    Win McCormack, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • After five years as e-tron, Audi would like you to call them the Q8 e-tron and the Q8 e-tron Sportback from now on.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The business said on Facebook that it would be closed for the rest of Saturday and on Sunday.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 July 2022
  • That started the Great Klondike Gold Rush, and huge fortunes would be made over the next several years.
    Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Davis has demonstrated he’s the kind of person who would make a good neighbor.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The news comes after Mr. Musk ran a poll on Twitter that showed users would like him to step down from the microblogging site.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
  • No fair would be complete without a midway and the one at the State Fair of Texas is truly massive.
    Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
  • One potential way to do so would be to get Kelly’s hot bat in the lineup at DH even on his off days.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2022
  • But more federal laws and standards would help around the margins.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
  • From a football standpoint, my favorite thing right now would not be on most OSU fans’ lists.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
  • In that light, pushing the Ukrainians back from Vuhledar would help Russia secure the train lines.
    Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Who wouldn’t want to wake up on Christmas morning to falling iguanas?
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Anyone on your list would be happy to unwrap a new hair tool, so go hook them up with an on-sale option.
    Glamour, 26 Nov. 2022
  • In years past, people would readily donate old cars to the program.
    al, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Officers would not allow the man to drive home and offered to call his girlfriend to pick him up, or to drive him to his girlfriend’s house.
    cleveland, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Just about every detail of the plan was ill conceived and would be grotesquely bungled in practice.
    Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Starmer, the Labour Party leader, would be the clear favorite to be prime minister if an election were held any time soon.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The Bruins and Capitals had four power plays each, and the calls weren’t as consistent as Marchand would have liked.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • On the first play of their second drive, the Tigers scored on a wide open pass, beginning what would be a 48-0 shutout win and another trip to the state final for Beechwood.
    Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The state intends to declare the State Center as surplus property, which would allow the city to claim it, Rutherford said this week.
    Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022

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