desiring

Example Sentences

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Desiring to express yourselves and connect with others, you and millions of people enter their most personal thoughts, feelings, and life events into databases.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022

Desiring a respite from constant road work, he started the Kentucky Mountain Boys in Lexington in 1961.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2022

John Piper is a Christian author and teacher, founder of "Desiring God" and pastor emeritus of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis.

From Fox News • Mar. 29, 2020

Desiring some emotional release after four years of war, President Lincoln declined to attend any worship service that day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2018

Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman