Words similar to desire

Example sentences for: desire

How can you use “desire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

All except the lord chancellor, although, the Telegraph reassures its readers, "his request to walk forwards stems from a desire to avoid an accident rather than from any modernising zeal."
Baden-Powell considered sexual desire a transitory phase in adolescence, and he was obsessed with self-abuse.
Mostly, I don't see that young people have any sense that things can be different, so the desire stays under the surface.
More neomorphemes and their consequent neologisms exist than can be sumupercised, spawned daily by ingenuity and the desire to put some flash into news copy, advertising drives, or the names of businesses.
Even when the pronunciation of a given word was precisely the same as that of the collectors, their desire to indicate the exotic qualities of black speech led them to utilize such misleading and superfluous spellings as wen for "when," fo'k or fokes for "folks."