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Example sentences for "needs"

Lexicographically close words:
needlessness; needlewoman; needlewomen; needlework; needna; needst; needy; neele; neem; neen
  1. It is the business of philosophy to provide for the needs of these weaker brethren.

  2. For the world needs truth eternally, therefore she needs also Heraclitus eternally; although he has no need of her.

  3. His fame is of concern to man, not to himself; the immortality of mankind needs him, not he the immortality of the man Heraclitus.

  4. Your General Ward may be satisfied with less; but nothing short of all I've mentioned would answer the needs of an old campaigner.

  5. To do that you must needs go into Boston," he said.

  6. What's Ugus but one of your cypher words, and you must needs stick it up on your mantelshelf for all the world to see?

  7. And you must needs come parading your monstrous person through the thick of London, like any fashionable gentleman,' continued George.

  8. She is leaving her party with the air of a loser, and needs the comforts of chicken and champagne.

  9. She rose with the utmost coldness, did not give him her hand, and only the bare mockery of a bow, as though her indignation against Mr. Kelly was so complete that it must needs embrace his friend.

  10. His arm amputated and the wound healed, Wogan must needs join the Prince of Wales, then residing in his palace of Holyrood, near Edinburgh.

  11. Which conduct she most Christianly forgave, since indeed the poor man's head must needs be turned.

  12. He stood just within the opening in the hedge, and must needs have come through the trees beyond, while Lady Oxford and her guests were discussing the Parson's good fortune.

  13. But to search Kelly's pockets Hutchins must needs stoop.

  14. Lady Oxford, leaning upon Mr. Kelly's arm in order to provoke the Colonel, must needs in pity bid the Colonel wait upon Rose in order to provoke Mr. Kelly.

  15. Commercial morality and honesty are determined by each community for itself in the light of its own special needs and point of evolution.

  16. Let us by all means reform whatever needs to be reformed, but let us do it with clean hands.

  17. You are aware of the interests which I have at heart: social reform, the education of the submerged, the physical needs of the young--there is no necessity for me to enumerate my ideals further.

  18. The man must needs be effusive, positively gushing.

  19. There was one group of three papers whose needs seemed to coincide, and I could see an article rejected by one paper being taken by another.

  20. If they deliberately find enough satisfaction for their needs in the company of a circle of men friends and the casual pleasures of the town, selfishness is the last epithet with which their behaviour can be charged.

  21. Good wine needs no bush' has become a trade paradox, 'Judge by appearances,' a commercial platitude.

  22. Then needs must I thank thy namesake and my patroness in heaven," rejoined Waldo.

  23. Those which I have added to this translation are intended to explain so much as needs explanation to a person who is not much acquainted with Roman history and Roman usages; but they will also be useful to others.

  24. I have had another object than to discuss the niceties of words and the forms of phrases, a labour which is well in its place, if it be done well, but is not what needs to be done to such an author as Plutarch to render him useful.

  25. It was all monotonous, without beauty or majesty, but strange, as anything that has never been seen before or anything that is shapeless must needs be strange.

  26. He would never know why she had loved him so spontaneously and so ardently; why a nature in which instinct must needs play so imperious a part had found room for such noble feelings, humility and delicacy and devotion.

  27. Store he needs of endless knowledge, His unvaried hours to cheer; Furnished with sublime resources For this solitude austere.

  28. Truly needs he prove a Christian, Thus cut off from all his kind; Firmest faith he needs in Heaven; And boundless fortitude of mind.

  29. However along to the Bower you shall go, and taste of a Forester's Meat; And when we came thither, we found as good cheer, as any man needs for to eat.

  30. The highest branch that soars aloft, Needs must beshade the myrtle-tree, Needs must the shadow of them both, Shadow the third in his degree.

  31. Harrington in hart was full woe, When he saw that the lord must needs be dead.

  32. The entertainment needs must be divine-- Appollo's th' Host where Cockains heads ye Sign.

  33. Faith, Master, I needs must Confess That I fear I was boasting too soon But I for another fresh Hare And you Dick shall have Din'd by Noon.

  34. He will try to forge receipts, he will get up false evidence that he has already paid, and the wretched putwarrie needs all his native and acquired sharpness, to hold his own.

  35. They goad the poor wretch on this raw sore with a sharp-pointed stick when he lags, or when they think he needs stirring up.

  36. It needs not my poor testimony to uphold their character for high honour, loyal integrity, and zealous eagerness to do 'justly, and to walk uprightly.

  37. If men haven't patriotism enough to volunteer when their country needs them, why, I think they ought--I just wish I was old enough!

  38. He needs the quiet and the country air, and I fancy there are two or three people here whom he is longing to see.

  39. Sarah has entirely too much color for scarlet; she needs something to tone her down.

  40. It is hard sometimes to see it passed so unnoticed in this world, but I suppose that is where patience needs to have her perfect work.

  41. One may be a brave soldier with purely physical courage, but to be a good soldier one needs moral courage as well.

  42. So I shall give up my own comfort and idleness awhile longer, and stand by the dear country that needs every man in this last great struggle.

  43. When I was prosperous before, I am afraid that I did not think much of the needs of those around me; but in my poverty I saw so often where a little would have been of great assistance to me.

  44. Woman needs friendship more than man, because she is less self- sufficing.

  45. The voluntary spirit of such a service teaches the one lesson which man himself needs to learn for his own salvation.

  46. They show how much such a genius needs to apply to itself the balancing and rectifying criticisms of a sober wisdom.

  47. There was a basis for this eulogy; but it needs much qualification.

  48. Pray pardon me, I must needs speak with her, my business is so weighty.

  49. I must needs steal that Priest, Steal him, and hang him.

  50. Kind Gentlemen, lead in Shattillion, For he must needs be weak and sickly yet.

  51. I must to horse straight, you must needs along too, To see my son aboard: were but his wife As fit for pity, as this wench, I were happy.

  52. No question, Madam, And he that [you purpose to make] so blest Must needs be worthy of our humblest duty, It is the general vote.

  53. That's as he please; For that Man that resolves, needs no Phisitian.

  54. I dare then, That you might hope to marry me; nay blush not, An honorable end needs no excuse; And would you love me then?

  55. Madam, 'tis a rule First made in heaven, and I must needs declare You and Arcadius must tie no knot Of Man and Wife.

  56. The governor again asked them if they would agree to Victor's proposition, and go to the reservation which was found best adapted to their needs after survey and examination, but both chiefs positively refused.

  57. He visited every point of importance on the eastern side, informed himself thoroughly of the needs and conditions at each, and returned to Olympia on the 28th.

  58. France needs it, the Emperor needs it, the army needs it.

  59. I watched him anxiously when he rejoined his patients, and so did my good friend the landlady, but he said nothing and busied himself with the needs of his soldiers.

  60. I said in English, "Whenever the Emperor needs the help of Etienne Gerard I am ready night and day to give my life in his service.

  61. It is a constant, one of those things that is constantly brought up many times both in the schools and in the coordination needs of the Secret Service needs and functions in these areas.

  62. In all of those the Secret Service jurisdiction, the Secret Service desires and needs in the way of protection of the President have been included many times over.

  63. Does the Secret Service have a facility for commandeering, getting airplanes when it needs them fast?

  64. That this money would go for the needs of the children he very well knew, and possibly for that reason he had been a little more lavish in buying for himself now, while he had it.

  65. When he sought out these feeding-places, he took into consideration the needs of the sheep, finding pasture where the young could feed as safely as those who were stronger.

  66. Stay at home, Nell, and make him a home as long as he needs you.

  67. It seems too bad that she had to be taken from him right when a boy needs a mother the most.

  68. He was sorry for the little ones, but hoped the sight of their needs would waken the chords of real manhood which once stirred the heart of his brother-in-law.

  69. Austin was free also at this time in writing very pointedly to his father of the family needs and to insist that more money should be forthcoming to meet current expenses.

  70. But she is just now where she needs mother-care the most.

  71. And the girls were passing through the age when more than ever a girl needs a mother.

  72. Henry Hill was not a common workman, but was capable of making good money, and had been favored with an opening which brought in plenty for the needs of his family.

  73. A child can be cared for by nurses and teachers, but when a girl reaches her teen age she needs a mother, or some one who can take the place of a mother," agreed his friend.

  74. I guess he needs some lessons in totin' ladies round same's he does in most everything else.

  75. Bread an' coffee an' oatmeal is all anybody needs for breakfast.

  76. Neither is it enough to say, that the English is the language with which we are swaddled and rocked asleep; and therefore there needs none of this artificial and superadded care.

  77. But he needs not [to] apprehend that I should strictly examine those little faults; except I am called upon to do it.

  78. For people of the weakest parts are most commonly overborn with these fooleries; which, together with the great difficulty of their being prudently managed, must needs occasion them, for the most part, to be very trifling and childish.

  79. Which, if observed, must needs render all the events of the Play more natural.

  80. And must he needs be void of all grace, though he has a shilling in his purse, after the rates be crossed [off]!

  81. Now, as it needs must be One of the Clock before it can be Two or Three; so I shall handle this word And, the first word of the Text, before I meddle with the following.

  82. The hailstone needs a grain of dust for its core.

  83. For even the blood is alone and in part, and needs an answer.

  84. And there needs some sort of equilibrium between the two modes.

  85. It needs as well the presence of men, the vibration from the present body of the man.

  86. It can hear her, because hearing needs no transmission into concept, but it has no oral notion of sounds.

  87. Unless of course he is a critic who needs to scribble a dollar's worth of words, no matter how.

  88. The circuit of friendship, of personal companionship, of sexual love must needs be established before the child is begotten, or at least before it attains to adolescence.

  89. When therefore the four great centers of the extended consciousness arouses in a child, at adolescence, they must needs seek a strange complement, a foreign conjunction.

  90. Yet the child needs more than the mother.

  91. The same paralytic inability to lift the feet when one needs to run, in a dream, comes directly from the same impeded action of the heart, which is thrown off its balance by some material obstruction.

  92. When I found myself too ill to read, and too desponding to endure my own reflections, I discovered that it is really a miserable thing to be destitute of the soothing and supporting hand when nature most needs it.

  93. Thus alone Can I partake the happiness on earth; And to be happy here is a man's chief end, For to be happy he must needs be good.

  94. Who needs a teacher to admonish him That flesh is grass, that earthly things are mist?

  95. Thus alone Can I partake of happiness on earth; And to be happy here is man's chief end, For to be happy he must needs be good.

  96. But even this was not quite broad enough for the needs of the army away from home.

  97. For then it may be wagered that there will be gayety enough to answer the needs of even the most post-card-haunted soldier.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.