wish
Usage
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.
Example Sentences
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“I wish I had started sooner,” Wedel said.
"The end of the transatlantic era," he went on to say, "is neither our goal nor our wish... we will always be a child of Europe".
From BBC
"I really wish I could have stayed longer than I did."
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But he wishes affording small luxuries like this didn't require such careful effort.
From BBC
The Lilleys reached out to some of the family members, saying they wished the CRJ pilots hadn’t been mentioned in the suits.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
