Sentence examples for wishes from high-quality English sources.

• He wishes me most particular to write what larks.

• Instead, he asks them to imagine not needing wishes.

• A will is a common way to put your wishes in writing.

• In his reply he writes, "I received your wishes for my birthday.

• The programme maker must consider why the person wishes to remain anonymous.

• As it happens, it appears that families rarely override the donors’ known wishes.

• Everyone is at liberty to build his own logic, i.e. his own language, as he wishes.

• And sometimes, even when relatives know a loved one’s wishes, they cannot make sure they are granted.

Use wishes in a sentence.

• There is no easy democratic way of reconciling the wishes of voters in one country with those of another.

• The willing addict, however, takes the drug of her own free will since her will meshes with what she wishes it to be.

• In deciding whether to reopen, some heads are thus stuck between the wishes of the government and the wishes of their teachers’ unions.

• Such a document should never be used to kill someone against their wishes, and if those wishes are unknowable, they should be left to live.

• The new dance does not content itself with being enchanting and entertaining only; it wishes to be stirring, exciting and thought-provoking" - Gertrud Bodenwieser.

• In preparation for the holiday, couplets bearing well wishes for good health, fortune, and luck are hung around the house — often in entryways to invite the wishes into the home.

• He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

• Oh how one wishes that “somewhere else” could be one of the hellholes where ducks and geese suffer forced feedings, organ damage, and unending pain only to be slaughtered for their diseased “fatty livers.”

wishes sentence examples

• “Further, whilst Jessica was brought up in a highly toxic home environment where she and her mother were regularly subject to extreme physical and emotional abuse by her father, Jessica wishes to make it clear she loved her father, she still does and wishes he was still here.

• Any message President Trump wishes to convey to his Iranian counterpart, or any urgent information Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wishes to pass on to Secretary of State Pompeo, will be transmitted through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran or the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C.

• If one wishes only to account for a proper subset of moral notions, such as obligation, with one’s theological voluntarism, then the objection from God’s goodness is very weak; if one wishes to provide a sweeping account of normativity in theological voluntarist terms, then the objection is much stronger.

• When a courtesan wants to keep some particular man from some other woman; or wants to get him away from some woman to whom he may be attached; or to deprive some woman of the gains realized by her from him; or if she thinks that she would raise her position; or enjoy some great good fortune; or become desirable to all men by uniting herself with this man; or if she wishes to get his assistance in averting some misfortune; or is really attached to him and loves him; or wishes to injure somebody through his means; or has regard to some former favour conferred upon her by him; or wishes to be united with him merely from desire; or any of the above reasons, she should agree to take from him only a small sum of money in a friendly way.