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    Use "wish" in a sentence

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    1. that, we all wish we could have power to control every


    2. had no wish to be a “circus freak” provided for the entertainment of the ensuing crowd


    3. I have no wish to “paddle in a pool of pathos” but this really describes my current medical situation so wel


    4. Certainly, I now have no wish to record any future decline if, or when, it should happen


    5. I wish I could say that I had the courage to invite her over for dinner, but Vera was the more assertive one in the relationship


    6. What you love most is what you most wish for yourself


    7. I wish to retain some of the good parts of our culture alongside the native culture


    8. "I still wish you could trust me


    9. "I wish I could share your conviction," Serpent said, "but I've seen this Man who is meant to dominate us and he is a complete buffoon!"


    10. Yet again, I am left with the definite feeling that Liz is popular … I wish I knew her properly … Stephen seems to like her and he is pretty picky when it comes to people generally, and especially women

    11. "I just wish I could fly


    12. As he walked to the bar to fulfil his patron’s wish he sighed once and made the sign of


    13. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love


    14. I wish to do nothing


    15. The saying 'be careful what you wish for' was never more apt than for ‘tattoo witchcraft' as she liked to call it


    16. "I know, that's another reason I'm reluctant to add to the crew and another reason I wish we could move with some haste


    17. Tell me, what else could we wish for? This is the word of God that


    18. ‘I wish I could believe that she has dealt with that Dan Sadler and moved on


    19. "Ava has never lied to me," Tahlmute said, then muttered, "I wish I could say the same


    20. Jesus, how I wish I could've been a bit more useful to him

    21. I wish we'd thought to bring a crossbow


    22. "Assuming you wish to help of course


    23. "I wish I was more sure I wasn't a clone," Glenelle said, "Wouldn't they have sent you more recent ones?"


    24. hair and then, if you wish, they


    25. ‘Oh, I do wish I had seen that


    26. I wish it had been me


    27. I know I always thought he made up half the things he said, and even now I wish I didn't have to believe this


    28. Jubei ---> as you listen, that is my wish not to suffer more this


    29. Probably, deep inside I feel they are hostile to me, and I wish I could prove my worth to them


    30. "Wish we’d brought the gunnery junk instead," Parker blurted out without thinking

    31. "I mean I just wish we brought more guns, that’s all


    32. The negligee I have to wear in the last scene before the interval is not mine, though Andy has made certain comments about it on the way home which have made me wish it were


    33. "I wish my wives were here with me


    34. I wish to attend the lecture but I would rather not go alone, so at about noon I phone Aphrodite and let her know


    35. Rose has expressed a wish to watch the film which is on TV this afternoon – The Sound of Music - and as it would never cross her menfolk’s minds to suggest otherwise and also as the weather has degenerated into an unpleasant blustery rain, we decide it would be rather nice to curl up in the warm and do just that


    36. “I really wish I could, but it’s not up to me


    37. As I can hear, it is someone from Janus and they have called to wish many happy returns to Stephanie


    38. "Believe me son, I wish there were more answers out there


    39. His car is parked in the car park on Sunday – I see it from my bedroom window as I am dressing … it hits me so hard that I throw myself onto the bed and sob into the pillow … I wish, oh how I wish I could see him


    40. I wanted to go home, I craved a cigarette, but I could have neither, and the indignity of my sordid life made me wish for the ultimate release

    41. We both knew that this relationship was peculiar to our situation, that neither one of us would or could wish it to continue beyond the walls of confinement


    42. "There are some who wish to establish a boundary but not necessarily a government


    43. "I'll examine what we find from one lander," Glenelle said, "I wish it could be an android actually, that would blend into the scenery Alan found a lot better than a standard groundbase


    44. The things we really deeply wish in our most


    45. “¿Do you still wish to raise an army to protect those you love?” Elden


    46. I just wish Melissa could have known


    47. The victor of this competition was to be granted one wish and serve at


    48. those who would defeat you I will grant you one wish, and you will have the


    49. As Son was thinking about what he should wish for, the woman with the


    50. “¿So what is it that you wish for warrior?” asked the king as he raised his














































    1. I wished it didn't have to face north but this is like a tiny scale model of my dream house


    2. "You used me," he said, and wished he wasn't to drunk to get that lockbox out her hands


    3. This was a nice house in all but the dead of winter, but he really wished he had someone to share it with


    4. Telsair had sat at this table in the dawn with him, he wished she was here now


    5. ‘Yes, of course, I wished time and again that things were different, but would have I have made a different choice if I had to do it again? No, I don’t think so


    6. She wished she could have seen the real thing, not just the dimly-lit base of the tunnel rim and the hewn rock disappearing into the blacker black of the mountainside against the black but star-strewn sky above


    7. ‘I bet he did … and I bet he wished he was telling the truth as well


    8. So Liz Wynell is early fifties is she? And my Stephen is forty five … not what I would have wished for him …


    9. matter how much he wished it, no matter how loudly he wailed and pleaded


    10. He wished he had known where they were going before they left so he could have taken the back way

    11. But who would he find around here?" Nightday had been an unrelenting sixteen hours of boredom that he wished he could sleep right thru like his kedas did


    12. She knew she could have as much air in her universe as she wished, it was more like social air


    13. She wished she didn't have to, it's really just a fancy electric dildo isn't it? But she did, and had for years while they were separated when Morg as away at B


    14. Surely he could just sit and fade out of the world as he had always wished?


    15. She squeezed her eyes shut together and wished, but no data at all arrived


    16. There was a timid side of her that wished the planet was an interesting find of exobiological life and they could get the Heavenly Mother in here safely and rebuild Angel society while studying the microbial life on this planet


    17. Rather than adjourning early, the Haadij continued the discussions about the logistics of setting up a seed colony in the Kassidorian wilds among the astrophysicists and any others of the crew who wished to remain and listen or participate


    18. He wished he could hack thru to the female world and rejoin his partners


    19. Bahkmar wished his friends could all be other techs, they would never talk freely, anywhere, but they would understand freely


    20. Bahkmar wished he was a good enough technician to repair Moamar's brain, but how the mind that was being simulated actually worked was not understood and he would not have a clue how to start

    21. He wished he were in a position where he could make the decisions


    22. “They called and wished many happy returns,” explains Aphrodite, rather thoughtful


    23. Bahkmar wished he'd hacked a malfunction into it, wished he'd thought of that a week or two earlier when he might have had time


    24. He wished it was not possible for the mind to function in this much pain but still it would not quit


    25. How he wished that 11


    26. He wished he could imagine what it was like for Angels a century and three quarters beyond the one's who's sister he once loved


    27. At this point he wished his boat was a bit smaller so he could duck under the ropes like the kayaks and needleboats did


    28. Alfred wished Alan would just let her ramble about that


    29. The Countess through her financial foundations and partnerships moved in quiet splendour wherever and whenever she wished


    30. Today she wished to holiday in Crete and live like they did, these people who provided succour, and tonight, she was sure, would provide the next heir to her line

    31. The effect was just as he wished it to be today


    32. Even though they were loved by most, there were still those who wished


    33. stay in the castle for as long as they wished


    34. Desa wished she could get a little more into the music, there are lots of real bands in Lastriss, thirty to fifty active at any one time, and she never saw more than a few of them when she was here, this could be the only one she would see this time


    35. wished for nothing more than to feel her close to him for always


    36. There was a breeze like they wished for when they were on the Lhar


    37. Vyinga now wished she paid close attention to every word Alan ever uttered about his drug dream


    38. He wished there was some way he could come out of the ship and into her head and show her the thermal scans and get her off this act


    39. She wished that I too


    40. And wished he had the strength to fight

    41. The dragon had wished that Cosmicblasto and


    42. most grateful but wished that Joe would go with them


    43. who you have slapped on the back and wished well


    44. Alan wished someone would bring something up about it


    45. He wished he could really know what he had done wrong


    46. As soon as I heard it, I wished I had the power to send it back


    47. Not for the first time they had wished


    48. They all came up and wished them well, shook hands with Daniel, and kissed Kate on the cheek


    49. He wished he had longer on the eye


    50. She did her best to ignore them and wished me good day as I passed














































    1. wishes he/she could have supernatural power to be


    2. wishes they can get divine aid to change their situation


    3. she wishes to be


    4. the decision to write a character out, it will usual y be because of the fact that the actor wishes to depart or because the part has run its full course


    5. Still, he had to say something to let his boss know that he was hard at work trying to fulfill his wishes


    6. All Rose wants is to keep dancing, but deep down she realizes she will have succumb to her parents wishes and concentrate on her studies to become a doctor or a lawyer or something prestigious


    7. few moments as he wishes to offer you his congratulations?”


    8. In spite of Tahlmute's wishes, this must have been quite the event at Taktor's


    9. He wishes to bring us to


    10. wanted to have their own way and set aside the wishes or needs of others

    11. He was glad she didn't just whisper something to one of them like 'ask daddy about the enemy starship,' but she was sensitive enough to his wishes to refrain from doing that


    12. It is you who wishes to fight


    13. Wiesse can have my head, if he wishes


    14. their appreciation and best wishes encouraging her to


    15. With best wishes and much affection,


    16. ‘He’s appointed me to action his wishes


    17. I want to grant them both their wishes, but somehow I find there is only one of me


    18. When we were packing his belongings, I found a copy of his testament – I am appointed to carry out his wishes


    19. I've come to pray to Agia Agni and would be grateful if you'd respect my wishes


    20. Paul said he wishes all men were like he was and could abstain from carnal entertainment

    21. connected to another being, and to live according to both them and their partner's wishes


    22. He just wishes, when the flies stop buzzing and the


    23. their wishes is a true invasion of their privacy and is


    24. One shines in the light and protects; the other hides in the dark and wishes us harm


    25. learned that at a nearby university (the one that everyone in town wishes


    26. To invoke fascination fulfill another’s wishes which could not be granted


    27. Barry asked me to send his best wishes


    28. toward however the reader wishes to apply them


    29. wishes (it should be voluntary and private) she or he may devout this fast to


    30. 5 Conjure an army for me so that I may fulfill your wishes

    31. love provides and hate does not in any way wishes to be known or have


    32. The Teacher wishes to speak with you both


    33. To many people, he is wonderful, and it's my misfortune to be the only person he wishes to abuse


    34. He wishes he was deaf


    35. You might find that the majority of Jade City citizens wishes are contrary to yours


    36. The possibility of failure is not one that Leona wishes to contemplate, bringing with it the prospect of a dizzying career at window two of the drive-thru obesity factory; that or Snuggle's ad infinitum


    37. Another exchange of well wishes by each party and she continued up the boardwalk toward her restaurant


    38. Of course there’s a side of me that wants to yell at you for blurting that out,” and her voice did get more stress, “I’ve made my wishes clear that I didn’t want to be known as a ghost from YingolNeerie but as the founder of the Study of Virtuality


    39. 'We were not pleased about that event either, if we had been able to make our wishes known then, we would have made the attempt to stop that from occurring as well


    40. So, with more pats on the back and more well wishes, Harry's debut of celebrity was officially inaugurated, and it wouldn't pass until he boarded that train next June

    41. Yet the state of man, 'like unto a kingdom suffering an insurrection' is so mis-wired, so scrambled in its service of our wishes, that we are not able to genuinely 'do' anything


    42. ” He explained his wishes and bid the lad a good morning


    43. returns – and if he wishes to re-employ them


    44. against her husband’s wishes


    45. There had been certain omissions, which Kaitlyn, in good conscience, withheld, knowing Harry's wishes on some subjects


    46. 'The King wishes to


    47. 'Thomas wishes to know whether you intend to bring


    48. ’ I replied, handing him the tape of the concert ‘Oh, and Alastair sends his best wishes


    49. down the big hill on the north side of Kingdom Street, he saw that all his wishes


    50. While Kaitlyn was already relatively certain which productions best suited the membership of 'the players,' she wanted to be absolutely sure the decision appeared to be the product of their own wishes














































    1. Take decisive actions, rather than detaching completely from problems and stresses and wishing they would just go away


    2. There are probably two dozen women in the town of Sinbara right now staring out the dingy window at their breakfast table and wishing there was someone there to share the view, or wishing they had a view in the sunshine at all


    3. He had to go find her, well maybe not today, but instead of just wishing she was here


    4. He had been asking me this for years, wishing it, willing it


    5. I lay there in my own ordure, alone in the dark in a stripped bare room, wishing for death to take me


    6. After he eats, he sits on the bed wishing he still had the book his father gave him


    7. ’ I said, wishing I had more information and feeling helpless


    8. I sit there until lunchtime, wishing I’d something to read and having no choice but to allow my mind to freewheel over the events of the past few days … reliving all the conversations I have had with both of my companions … thinking about Joris


    9. I am not used to writing by hand but there are no computers here on Errd and, for the first time since I came across, I find myself wishing for something of Earth


    10. ’ I assured him, wishing that I was feeling as confident as I hope I sound

    11. Smiling the warrior raced down the hallway after wishing her ‘good hunting’


    12. She beseeched the heavens, wishing that she might wake


    13. You know it was funny, although she was clearly wishing the earth would open up and swallow her, she was smiling and her eyes were like stars


    14. Anyone wishing to be a member should instead ask their self what they


    15. I wake up and stare at the ceiling of my bedroom at the flat feeling lousy and wishing I were dead … for the millionth time I go over in my head the events of last night … everything had been going so well … where had that blazing row materialised from? I grope under my pillow for tissues as I remember how, in a furious temper, I had screamed at Dave that I wasn’t going to stay another minute in his house … and he yelled back that, in that case, I had better bugger off


    16. “You told me I wasn’t very nice, wishing to keep warm this winter


    17. Does that help?” asked his guest, sincerely wishing to assist


    18. For a moment, he cursed Kev … wishing he’d had the guts to take Kev up on his offer when he suggested Andy should go with him


    19. every time, wishing that I could kick him in the balls underneath the table


    20. Lawrence Spelman took advantage of their shared quarters to discuss with Harry certain things he had been wishing to impart

    21. Now he stood behind his employer wishing there


    22. Johnny looked down at the ground and shook his head, wishing himself


    23. I would look at the clock wishing for night to


    24. "You got it" she shot back, wishing she hadn’t started the conversation


    25. Obviously, wishing to speak to her, but he patiently waited until Alex finished telling her his plans


    26. beggar, part of her almost wishing that she had never left


    27. "Where's Mike?" She asked, not wishing to pursue the other subject


    28. He sat there for a second, maybe wishing the computer would chime the


    29. orders for him, maybe wishing the Voice would call him in and have another


    30. “I host Bridge club this month, and was wishing to decorate the house for

    31. All the Bautista's are wishing you happiness with Jeff


    32. However, if she was going to go there, she knew she’d better be ready for a lecture, but what other choice did she have? She pulled the keys out and headed for his office, half wishing he wouldn't be there and she could just barrow the bar's phone


    33. Wishing I would have


    34. Is a wishing star,


    35. Wishing upon this star


    36. wishing that he’d never set foot outside of Troyes


    37. suddenly wishing he hadn't sided so readily with the


    38. not wishing to oppose it, supported – even encouraged –


    39. As for Marx, he was a shifter Jew wishing to be a


    40. Wishing for more wishes or love is taboo:

    41. I was wishing my friends, clad smartly in


    42. as wishing on stars and the machines that can fly toward


    43. morning - wishing he could take his place


    44. I sighed, wishing that were the truth


    45. “How old is your brother?” she asked, wishing he would start removing his clothes


    46. Wishing there was somewhere to sit down, Chris waited for the panel to be ready


    47. He idly flipped open his briefcase and looked at the contents, wishing he had brought something to eat with him


    48. He held onto Evans for a few seconds, wishing he could remove her grief


    49. Not wishing to frighten him, she placed her face near his and said


    50. Deanna felt her stomach and throat constricting, wishing she’d drunk more of that water













































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    Synonyms for "wish"

    wish compliments regard indirect request want wishing bid wish well care like ambition aspiration dream goal promise desire craving will inclination crave yearn long for need covet lack command direct order instruct hope beg pray for entreat request solicit invoke

    "wish" definitions

    a specific feeling of desire


    an expression of some desire or inclination


    (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare


    the particular preference that you have


    hope for; have a wish


    prefer or wish to do something


    make or express a wish


    feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of


    order politely; express a wish for


    invoke upon