wished
Example Sentences
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Thanks to an ancestor who wished to never feel the agony of love again, any man the Owens women fall in love with ends up dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“In my opinion, what they wished me to do is say nothing, but that is not how Safety is supposed to operate.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
She later said she wished she had never met the late sex offender.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
They thanked me for being there, and said they wished more Albanian journalists would come and talk to them.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
I wished I could take a piece of Gran with me too, but there was nothing.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
