Example Sentences

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A Lee campaign spokeswoman declined to comment on Newsom’s decision but said that Lee’s “primary concern is for Sen. Feinstein’s health. She is wishing the senator a full and speedy recovery.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

Bella Robertson is wishing her husband Jacob Mayo a special birthday.

From Fox News • Jul. 23, 2021

Certainly no reasonable person would take that awkward phrasing to mean that Marsh is wishing illness on anyone.

From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2020

Wherever she is, Martha Mitchell is wishing someone had invented Twitter 50 years ago.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2018

The sermon slouched along as sermons will when every single soul in the building is wishing that the ushers would start passing around cool glasses of lemonade.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt