wish
Usage
What are other ways to say wish?
To wish is to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.
Example Sentences
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You wish you just had superpowers to get home.
From BBC
“We did. And I wish I had time to chew the fat again, but my brother and I are going out to buy a typewriter.”
From Literature
One day I’ll be fired, and probably not long from now, and I wish I could bring myself to care more, the way I wish I could bring myself to care more about everything.
From Literature
The script is a poetic repetition of the same structure of his retirement wishes, “When I retire, I will …” You can tell he’s aging by the angle of the few lines that define his face.
From MarketWatch
Referring to the T20 World Cup, he said: "There wasn't any part of me that was wishing I was playing in that team, to be honest."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
