wanting

[US]/'wɒntɪŋ/
[UK]/'wɔntɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking; insufficient
prep. without; lacking
v. lacking; needing

Example Sentences

they weren't wanting in confidence.

an hour wanting 15 minutes.

a letter wanting a stamp

mandibles are wanting in many of these insects.

Wanting courage, nothing can be done.

His book, while truthful, is wanting in excitement.

he'd kept on at her, wanting her to go out with him.

there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock.

editorials accusing the government of wanting to gag the popular press.

What’s all this I hear about you wanting to leave?

You'll find us all wanting to make friends with you.

appraised his character and found him wanting;

I had the fishing inspector wanting to see my licence — I was done like a dinner.

Wanting to do him dirt, she sent his wife a poison-pen letter.

It’s no thanks to you that we arrived on time—you kept wanting to stop!

Not wanting to be called an easy marker, the teacher graded the essays severely.

The boy must be feeling better, and he's been wanting up all day.

The goal of executing a perfect layback is more conducive to flow than wanting to burn off your partner or impress a spectator.

Such achievements should have brought lasting fame – but, as Farmelo illustrates, Dirac made things difficult for those wanting to lionise him.

Has old Z met a ghost?Old z has designed that perhydrol constitutes fuel , that has been a pretty difficult thing in wanting to let perhydrol dissolve to fringe benefit.

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