Example sentences for: desire

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

  • But it has some of the best theme music in television history, and Rod Serling's voice can raise the hair on the back of my neck quicker than a scene out of Showgirls . My favorite episode: A burglar is shot dead while fleeing a crime scene and is transported to a wondrous place where every desire is immediately indulged--hot babes as far as the eye can see.

  • Baden-Powell considered sexual desire a transitory phase in adolescence, and he was obsessed with self-abuse.

  • The vice president's effort to portray Bradley as a latter-day Newt Gingrich is unconvincing considering that Bradley is frank about his desire to spend a lot of tax dollars expanding the availability of federal health insurance.

  • USAT reports that as soon as the Unabomber judge took the bench on Monday, Kaczynski, in a low calm voice asked to "revisit" the issue of his attorneys, apparently referring to his desire to jettison them because they still intend to introduce non-medical evidence of his mental instability.

  • I can't prove that he is motivated by the quest for fame and power rather than the desire to get at the truth.


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