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Example sentences for: desire

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He got married, at 55, to (as Jeal put it) "a sporting girl whose interest in outdoor comradeship seemed at least as great as her desire for sexual fulfillment," and he even managed to beget three children.
Since "no other Republican candidate of [Brulte's] political stature has indicated a desire to get into [the] contest," Ayres wrote back then, "Republican leaders say the district ...
Siegelbaum wants to kill the man for revealing his hidden desire.
In the short run, he asserted, interest rates were determined not by the balance between savings and investment at full employment but by "liquidity preference"--the public's desire to hold cash unless offered a sufficient incentive to invest in less safe and convenient assets.
Am I motivated to criticize Toobin in part by a desire to defend Isikoff from the slime in Vast Conspiracy ? You bet.