Example sentences for: desires

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

  • Such a policy rarely maximizes profits; the manufacturer stocks out, thereby losing the margin on the sale, and the retailer, which typically desires a consistent (or at least predictable) order-fill rate across items in a product group, is unhappy.

  • The more absolute the power of the local tyrant, the more rapidly and completely his policy desires are implemented.

  • More likely, they read wants as meaning `desires' rather than `lacks,' but that might well be a deliberate, facetious ambiguity.

  • But it's alert to its characters' constantly evolving desires in ways that high- and low-culture movies, with their strict aesthetics or their mass-market formulas, tend not to be.

  • It is a hunger for glory and all that comes with it--a willingness to sacrifice one's personal desires to the common good; a sense of honor, dignity, and fair play--that allows politics to rise above a mere squabbling among interests.


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