needed
necessary for relief or supply
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,350 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,590 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- necessary for relief or supply also: needful, required, requisite provided them with all things needful
needed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The needed addition--this much at least chiming with good luck--is brief.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice · James Branch Cabell · Chapter 1
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I thought I could succeed in conquering the fortune I needed to obtain your hand.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I needed only one look at him, and I had the answer to the mystery of the footprints.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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I see now that you needed a blow in the face to wake you up--and you got it.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The cavalcade, he said, needed a scout that would report any traces of robbers he might detect among the rocks and bushes.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1