Example Sentences

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“But it makes me sad if someone is desiring or needing to be tested and doesn’t have the means to get that. It’s heartbreaking.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2020

It always makes me angry when I hear a passenger express a wish for a gale, in thoughtless ignorance of what he is desiring.

From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Paul is desiring for these Philippians that there may be none of this, but that their lives should commend themselves both to God and to men.

From And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by Chapman, J. Wilbur

In such cases, instead of desiring knowledge for its own sake, or for the sake of its usefulness, a man is desiring it as a means to reputation.

From Political Ideals by Russell, Bertrand

He is desiring us to go on,' replied the son.

From Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William