Example sentences for: desires

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

  • And so Updike, in his fervor, goes on a search for God (to thus label the object of his desires) directly, by means of an intimate, unblinking examination of the world in front of his own nose.

  • Finally, Kinsey's insistence that there was no such thing as a homosexual--a subspecies of humankind--but only an infinite shading of variation, a continuum of practices, seems to have had more to do with his training as an entomologist than with the nature of his own desires.

  • The real reason Pauline Kael was revolutionary was that she wrote for actual moviegoers like herself, and evoked their needs and desires.

  • Most of all, the program should stress that a man's evolved sexual desires offer him no excuse whatsoever for raping a woman, and that if he understands and resists those desires, he may be able to prevent their manifestation in sexually coercive behavior.

  • Or, for the same $20, you can surf the Web day and night for a month, download as much data as your modem can handle, enjoy unlimited e-mail, and even--if you own the right software--make as many telephone calls to New York or Paris or Timbuktu as your heart desires.


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