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Example sentences for "would need"

  • During and after the publication of those volumes it was evident, that our duty was to make known to those who have read or heard somewhat regarding our mission, that for a powerful co-operation we would need a centre of our action.

  • It will not rise entirely from the water, because to do this it would need to be lighter, not only than water, but than air.

  • It has been suggested that each dirigible would need an aeroplane escort force for its defense against ramming.

  • If the balloon meanwhile be headed due west, it would need an independent velocity of its own having the same ratio to that of the wind as that of de to fd, or about seventeen and one-half miles per hour.

  • Dan left early for the city, where he wished to purchase a few things he would need while "roughing it" in the Colorado mountains.

  • Grandmother made out a list of things we would need.

  • Together the girls went into the store and purchased the supplies they would need.

  • His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.

  • He would need to delight himself with Carrie as surely as he would need to eat his heavy breakfast.

  • He would need to interrupt under most trying circumstances.

  • But it would need more or less renewing and refitting in the fall, which it did not receive, but was made to answer by patching.

  • It would need a volume devoted to this subject alone to tell, even in epitome, all that has been done in this direction, and here we must confine ourselves to a rapid review of the leading results of inventive genius.

  • The factory system brought with it oppression and misery which it would need a century of industrial revolt to overcome.

  • They are many and mighty, and can only be glanced at in these introductory pages; it would need volumes to show them in full.

  • It would need a detailed treatment, here impossible, to back up so general a statement with the facts which prove it, but the facts are beyond dispute.

  • The really vast subject matter also imposes its own limitations upon even the most sincere student unless he has specialized for a lifetime in his theme; even then he would need to ask the charity of his readers.

  • It would need a pretty careful analysis to follow all this to its roots.

  • He would need, in a word, heroic figures and supernatural machinery.

  • Nor is it clear that my epics, to be perfect, would need to be quite endless.

  • With better faculties the field of possible experience could be better dominated, and fewer of its parts, being hidden from sight, would need to be mapped out symbolically on that sort of projection which we call scientific inference.

  • Luis asked, then answered his own question, "It would need to be on a road, not only leading from the base, but to the outside.

  • Also, it would need to be a lonely place, would it not?

  • And it would need to be a place where the things could be hidden and not be seen, but where a helper from outside could find them easily.

  • In that event we would need no plans for national defense.

  • This nation can readily manufacture for itself, and store away in its arsenals and warehouses, all the arms and equipment, all the munitions of war that we would need to conduct a victorious war against any nation of the world.

  • An army needed as a national police force to safeguard against any sort of domestic disturbance is a very different proposition from the army we would need in the event of a war with any of the great world powers.

  • For who could predict the minimum time we would need to free ourselves?

  • He was a prisoner escaping from prison and never dreaming he would need to reenter it.

  • To absorb it, we would need to fill containers with potassium hydroxide and shake them continually.

  • Her face and the pretty ways of her are all the protection she would need in a band of howling savages.

  • He repeatedly commanded her to stop and fall out of line, until he remembered that he would need her to lead him to Freckles.

  • I knew I would need my hands crossing the swamp, so I hid them there.

  • The precipitate--that which falls to the bottom--would need to be heavy, so that it would fall quickly and not necessitate the water being left standing for long periods.

  • It would need to be cheap, too, or easily recoverable, so that it could be used over and over again.

  • And, finally, it would need to be such that the gold, having been captured by it, could be easily obtained from it.

  • He knew that they must soon be discovered, for the first person who walked round that way could not fail to notice them, and then he would be sure to be questioned, and he would need to tell lies to shield himself.

  • Indeed, he hardly knew how to go and look for one, for it had never entered into his calculations that he would need to spend a night on the road.

  • So you think that I would need a wife to arrange my belongings, or a sister, eh, Ronald?

  • I would need a lower IQ to constrict myself in instinctual roles like a content biological robot.

  • Likewise, she was not exactly listening to the sound for to do so would be to have intent and for intention there would need to be a self that she did not have.

  • If a man sits in a box for some hours he would need exercise.

  • Oh, and I would need to train someone else to be the slave manager of the shop.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would need" 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:
    committed suicide; would accept; would break; would call; would desire; would endeavor; would have thee know; would hear; would here; would indeed; would leave; would listen; would lose; would mention; would never; would not; would prove; would reply; would shoot; would sometimes; would speak; would suffer; would talk; would that; would work; would yield