desire
verb (used with object)
has desired
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present perfectof desire (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Coming off his resurgent 2024 season in Los Angeles, outfielder Teoscar Hernández has desired to remain with the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
After moving to Salt Lake City in 2020, Carter has desired the pay minimums, pension and healthcare benefits enjoyed by his unionized co-workers in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
And he wants what every other long-suffering Jets fan has desired since Joe Namath led the team to its only Super Bowl title in 1969.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2021
And now the man who wrote its lyrics, Edgar Bronfman Jr., is coming closer to possessing something he has desired for most of his 39 years: a Hollywood studio.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is unjust to say that France ought to be allowed to remain under Napoleon, as she has desired his return: the army chiefly have desired it, and plotted it.
From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison
