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Usage examples of wannabe.

It had none of the swaggering machismo, the feral edge, that most runner wannabes take on as a mantle of their profession.

Cheaper, botched fakes were sold or sharewared to low-level gangs of boodler wannabes.

Diane Robards regarded Officers John Carnegie and Leland Ford as wannabes.

It was jam-packed with rifter wannabes and trapped pedestrians desperate to wait out the party.

I had passed from wannabe to gonnabe to finding-how-to-be to simply being.

These Maze wannabes had taken to Blood, tech implants, and supplantive surgery with an enthusiasm that bordered on the macabre.

Agent Novak assumed the fang marks were made by the fancy false teeth some dentists made for costumers and vampire wannabes, but she said it in a worried, uncertain tone.

Back to the cats, the cauldrons, the coconut oil, the sacred Jimmy Buffett songs sung at midnight into the ear of drunken, white-bearded Hemingway wannabes to make that rum-soaked member rise from the dead just this one last time.

You just insulted the slayers' grand master by running your mouth off at this dickface Amadeus wannabe.

She’d always thought of her mom and dad as freakazoid ethnic wannabes, what with all of the public hugging and kissing and haranguing.

I tore up the sheets, tossed one strip to Jason and Salla and had them mop up the blood on the floor, while I collected the wannabe eighth-grade gangstas and used the rest of the sheets, the aluminum foil, and the boot polish on them.

The flat in the Fillmore was packed wall-to-wall with various folks, everyone from radical chic wannabe revolutionaries to some very tough looking Panthers in their black leather coats and dark dark glasses.

And if you put one word about this part in the research paper, we'll all sound like paranoid James Bond wannabes.

Some of the Hitler wannabes have got sound bites and charisma that'd curl your toes.

The Troupe attracted all kinds of wannabes, most of them rather nutty, but every once in a while some anxious weedy-looking guy would show up at camp who didn't give a shit about tornadoes and really, really wanted Jerry to forget all about it and get back to proving how many soap bubbles could fit inside a collapsing torus in hyperspace.