wishing

Example Sentences

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Erickson said not a day goes by without him wishing he did something different that day.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

After his death on April 8 last year, Satrapi founded the Mattias and Marjane Ripa-Satrapi Cinema Foundation to support foreign students wishing to come to Paris to study filmmaking.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Biographers wishing he might slow down so they could catch up are out of luck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

On 8 May, the club posted an image of him on Instagram, thanking him, and wishing "the best of luck for the future".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

But for all my wishing and hoping and sending out ten different kinds of prayers for a good one, not a single decent plan came out of me.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan