desire
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Example Sentences
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He led two dozen friends into a local recruitment center and announced their desire to fight.
The first Saks Off 5th stores opened in 1995 as a way to capitalize on the growing desire of consumers to buy luxury goods at a discount.
Consider this a guide for those days, from someone who has lived enough of them — and loves food enough to have developed a surprisingly rigorous philosophy about what, exactly, to do when desire disappears.
From Salon
Powell’s situation is unlike either Eccles’s or Greenspan’s because he lacks an invitation or a strong desire to keep the job.
Your desire to avoid potential awkwardness has led you to feel like a victim, when in reality, you failed to make clear a very reasonable request — that everyone pay for their own dinner.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.