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Sentence count:151+1Posted:2017-04-03Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: wouldcouldmouldshouldmouldyshouldersmoulderhead and shoulders aboveMeaning: ['wʊdbɪː]  adj. unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition. 
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61. Thus the would-be entrepreneur can keep drawing benefits, and, if the business fails, they haven't lost out.
62. What has forced airline staff to take on this policing role of checking the travel documents of would-be asylum seekers?
63. On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
64. Startled squaddies received Abba tapes and videos from the would-be Santa Claus as he reassured them they were not forgotten.
65. At one time,(http://sentencedict.com/would-be.html) would-be subscribers had to be refused telephones because outgoing cables were overloaded with intelligence telephone taps.
66. A WOULD-BE postie has criticised the Royal Mail for a second class service following a mix-up over job interviews.
67. Therefore, the unappealing menu of toxins on offer is designed to defend the plant against would-be hungry predators.
68. There are early signs some would-be migrants are hoping Fox can do that.
69. Would-be lovebirds are unable to hear the love songs sung by other birds.
70. Auction experts also say it is important that would-be buyers do their homework.
71. The would-be acquirer is said to live within the city limits of Santa Clara, California.
72. Would-be apprentices are questioned about their attitude towards foreigners, and they take part in a week-long workshop on tolerance and diversity.
73. Several would-be sailors scoffed at the idea of a race until they actually set sail.
74. Mostar, the would-be capital of Herzeg-Bosna, remains split between two ethnically cleansed halves.
75. Johnson throws out so many would-be base stealers-44. 6 percent in 1997-few runners even try.
76. A morning rain may have kept some would-be voters home.
77. Again, the would-be reformers' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion.
78. And would-be self-improvers among adults need only keep one eye on the checklist to produce an acceptable composition.
79. Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.
80. But yesterday he found the would-be thieves had smashed the door lock in an attempt to break in.
81. To protect their investment in the trials, the firms do not make the results available to small would-be competitors.
82. All the same, the 1988 results give Socialist defenders of the mixed economy new ammunition to fire at would-be privatisers.
83. She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours.
84. Hurrying back to the office he found the would-be client gone and his boss apoplectic.
85. Prevention of overloading is another important target for the would-be licence holder.
86. One thing at least has become clear: their work often sat uneasily beside the dictums of its would-be publicists.
87. He is also pleased enough with his experience to recommend Glasgow to other would-be employers.
88. This is why the dropout rate amongst would-be dealers is so phenomenal.
89. The would-be objector must be either an owner or an occupier of heritable property.
90. No one man changed football more in this century than the would-be colliery official who drifted by chance into soccer management.
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