Similar words: would, could, mould, should, mouldy, shoulder, smoulder, head and shoulders above. Meaning: ['wʊdbɪː] adj. unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.
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91. The would-be island, now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists, is full of noises.
92. Those parts, in turn, were subjected to multiple amendments that added and subtracted large pieces of would-be law.
93. His would-be assassin, presumed to be in jail, belonged to his second line of defence.
94. If a would-be burglar was standing outside your front or rear door, how many neighbours could see him?
95. Nor should we forget our latter-day Darwin: the diarist, novelist or would-be intellectual sitting at home with his word-processor.
95. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
96. The fifth would-be author, former privatization chief Alfred Kokh, had quit over a similarly dubious book deal three months ago.
97. Every 10 feet, there are would-be climbers disengaging themselves from the chain and sitting down the side to rest.
98. Faulk and other would-be seniors, meantime, have enjoyed fine rookie seasons.
99. Several would-be robot makers fell by the wayside, among them Remek of Milton Keynes.
100. These are designed to whet rather than satisfy the appetite - but short bibliographies help would-be students to delve further.
101. And nowhere on the advertising hoardings aimed at would-be green motorists, do we see suggestions that we should stop buying cars.
102. These people will be highly attractive to would-be new entrants, who are expected to head-hunt them.
103. For would-be predators Greene King; it's an embarrassing reversal after claiming a foregone conclusion.
104. In addition, there are 50 would-be members who come along on Thursday evenings for a special reduced-rate session.
105. He watched his would-be freshman prodigy Alton Ford make just one of two free throws at the other end.
106. Yet many would-be entrepreneurs are often shocked when they discover the importance marketing has assumed-in building any new business.
107. This scheme provides practical and financial help for would-be purchasers with existing homes still to sell.
108. Do all these would-be triarchs provide mummer shows?
109. Because the token is changed each time the form is drawn, a would-be attacker would have to get an instance of the sending form, strip out the token, and put it in their spoofing version of the form.
110. I have observed certain recurring weaknesses that bedevil many would-be entrepreneurs.
111. German woman lost more than 5,000 euros ($6,000) after a would-be soothsayer convinced her she was possessed by evil spirits and prescribed an expensive exorcism as a remedy, authorities said.
112. Foreclosure activity weighs on overall home prices by adding a bulk of supply on the market at cut-rate prices, leading other would-be sellers to lower theirs in order to compete.
113. The would-be mass murderers planned to blow up the new King James I and his entire parliament in assembly at the Palace of Westminster on 5 November.
114. He said new courses spring up because there is demand from would-be students – but not necessarily from businesses.
115. There they find another spectacle: helmeted police with machine guns patrolling the subway station on the lookout for would-be bombers and gunmen.
116. Our would-be Japanese guests surely know the difference between puffery and truth.
117. Obama has been more cautious about how he deploys the military, but his caution has prompted his would-be Republican challengers to denounce him for flaccidity in standing up for American values.
118. The bones of another would-be centenarian, it turned out, were being stored in her son's backpack.
119. With victory assured, Maynard placed Blackbeard's head at the bow of his ship as a trophy and warning to other would-be pirates.
120. But -during this seven-day stretch no meaty item will tempt more would-be veggies back to the dark side than the bacon sarnie.
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