desire
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Example Sentences
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Currency-market experts say central banks sometimes use rate checks as a tool to spark desired moves in exchange rates.
From MarketWatch
All were driven to renounce the material world and liberate themselves from desires by going “forth to homelessness,” as several poems put it.
We all hold irrepressible yearnings and desires; they have driven us, across time, to engage with a spiritual world that encompasses beauty and, more importantly, our own inner lives and our connection to community.
As the images proliferated "I had ... this sort of desire to hide myself," the 36-year-old academic said, adding now "that fear has been more replaced with rage".
From Barron's
The 30-year-old's desire to make a dent in the head-to-head was evident in a spirited second-set display but he was ultimately unable to match Zverev once the German raised his level.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
