desire
Usage
Example Sentences
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I think there is at least a potential for Mahan to tap into a desire among voters to lower the hostilities just a bit and ease up on our constant partisan war-footing.
From Los Angeles Times
Kennedy said the desire to be recognised in her own right may have been a factor.
From BBC
Hypocrisy is the more-or-less conscious habit of saying one thing and doing another; projection is the mostly unconscious process of displacing one’s own unacceptable intentions onto other people’s presumed desires.
From Salon
Aramayo said that while Bolivia would not renounce its claim over its sea access, it "had every desire" to restore full ties with its neighbor.
From Barron's
“This chasm between the game and its audience,” Mr. Klosterman writes, “is so vast that most people obsessed with football have no firsthand perspective on the object of their desire.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
