Example Sentences

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When she says, “I’m a wanter myself. I want my son back” she isn’t just making any old gesture: she’s reaching for where the tears usually are.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2019

Madeline—who certainly is a wanter, and probably knows it—gets defensive.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2019

"I jes wanter pat it wunst," sighed the hereditary enemy, with a lithe writhing of her thin little anatomy in the anguish of denial—"jes wunst!"

From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

"What you wanter breng your trunk away on Sunday fer, Mr. Lindsay?" wondered Joe.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

“You wanter see me, son?” demanded the Westerner.

From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Emerson, Alice B.