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wish
noun as in desire
Strongest matches
ambition, aspiration, choice, hope, inclination, intention, longing, prayer, preference, request, will, yearning
Example Sentences
Sending our love and best wishes to you both as you start your new life together.
While there is a wish amongst leaders to protect their own people first, the response to this pandemic has to be collective.
There’s a wish list from San Diego Council members of what they’d like to get done with that $62 million.
We get lots of encouraging comments from users whose wishes were included in our roadmap.
Now, it should be noted that meta robots tag might be ignored at any point, but mostly crawlers respect the wishes of the webmasters.
And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
Ultimately, 2015 might be the year American anti-LGBT advocates wish they could skip.
At this point Marvin gives his Liberty Valance smile, the kind that makes you wish you could disintegrate in front of him.
Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.
When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.
I mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.
At the end of the first year, however, she resigned this privilege because she did not wish to accept the conditions of the gift.
How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glumdalchtch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me.
As the hopeless wish passed through his soul, the iron entered with it, but did not pass away.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say wish?
To wish is to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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