Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "just wanted"

  • I didn't think of the gypsies at the time: I just wanted to get out of Riverside.

  • I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions, if you don't mind.

  • I just wanted to ask you whether you had seen Miss Elsie this morning," said Mary Louise.

  • I just wanted to show Mr. Prale that there were some holes in his story.

  • I just wanted to prove to myself that I could make a million--prove it to myself and others.

  • I just wanted to inform you that you needn't depend on Detective Jim Farland any more.

  • I just wanted to tell you before our own Commission, and I might say to you also that we have explored the situation.

  • No; I just wanted to find out if he wanted to add anything at this time that would complete the record.

  • I just wanted to give you that opportunity.

  • I just wanted to tell you what fate I hold in store for you.

  • However, I'll tell you, I just wanted to have things ready, that's all.

  • Maybe it is," Frank agreed, "but I just wanted to find out.

  • There the watch lies in pieces, and the little miscreant excuses himself with the remark that he just wanted to see how it was made.

  • All right," said Holsma at last "I just wanted to tease you a little.

  • I just wanted to say something," returned Stacy, hastily stirring himself into activity and jumping on the bare back of his pony.

  • I just wanted to know so as not to have to open all the packs unless we are going to have a spread.

  • This time he didn't blame me for anything, didn't ask me any questions, just wanted to make up.

  • So I just wanted to elaborate a little bit--let her know.

  • I just wanted to keep the record straight.

  • I just wanted to show Sue about the cord.

  • I just wanted to get a ride, and then Sue was going to have one.

  • We just wanted to watch, and when they saw us I asked them to come here to-morrow to a real party.

  • I just wanted to know what you thought about it.

  • Peggy, I just wanted to tell you before I went to sleep that I've had such a lovely day.

  • I just wanted to ask you not to answer it till we'd talked it over again, Nelson.

  • Perhaps he just wanted to get him worried.

  • He just wanted to reward us for getting him out of that wrecked automobile," Bob explained.

  • We just wanted to come out here and see this Thompson about the strange animals he saw.

  • I just wanted to state in the record that I want to deny any accusations if there is any doubt in anybody's mind.

  • Frankie, we have already taken your deposition and I just wanted to ask you a few more questions and you are still under oath.

  • I just wanted to make sure I got that on the record.

  • Virtually the same thing, as I recall--I didn't make as long a statement, he just wanted to know where I was and what I did and I told him briefly and that seemed to satisfy him.

  • I mean, it seemed to me like he just wanted me to discourage him to the point where he could back out of the whole thing, and he never went through with it, and I never heard anymore about it after that.

  • I just wanted to make sure the record is clear on that.

  • I just wanted to say somethin' to you, only I don't rightly know how to begin.

  • I just wanted to say something to you, Henry.

  • He just wanted to be decently quiet about things that aren't pretty!

  • She was being relocated to a secure location in the Soviet section, or so she suspected, but she figured project management mainly just wanted to keep her out of the way.

  • I just wanted to see this," he said wistfully.

  • I just wanted to check out handling characteristics under different conditions.

  • He just wanted to know how he was, and send his love to him.

  • There's nothing to understand about them; I just wanted her to know that I brought her some flowers.

  • He just wanted to say how pleased he was to see you.

  • I just wanted you to say you liked me better than anything else.

  • I just wanted to be clever, and didn't know what I was talking about.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just wanted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another world; having three; just after; just and; just before; just behind; just cause; just come; just couldn; just from; just give; just government; just men made perfect; just opposite; just peace; just price; just such; just the; just went; just where; justice and; justify himself; justly proud; justly regarded; pearl shell; several plants