had desired
- past perfect of desire.
Example Sentences
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In a Nov. 26 letter to the judge, Kwon said he had desired transparency but was blocked from talking publicly about the rescue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
In reality, Magnifico grants almost no wishes, instead keeping them for himself while the wishers forget what they had desired.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Raísa’s gift of her kidney failed to generate the sort of reciprocal satisfaction that she had desired, but she might still be the beneficiary of the joy of giving.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2022
Pereira said it was far from the “triumphant start” Bolsonaro had desired.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2019
Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
