Example sentences for: desires

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

  • Mark Shields ( NewsHour ) was the first of many weekend warriors to repeat the stock formula about how the voters had made this deal with Clinton in 1992: He would curb his sexual desires while in the White House.

  • 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.

  • Her point, that women should stop letting men set the agenda and start attending to our own desires, sounds reasonable, even obvious.

  • 1 billion education initiative, originally proposed by President Clinton as exclusively for hiring new teachers, but as per GOP desires, local school districts will now retain the flexibility to use the new money not just for hiring, but also for recruitment, testing, and training of teachers; a $6 billion disaster assistance measure for farmers; grants to help the needy pay heating bills; $950 million towards a national anti-missile defense system; and $18 billion for the IMF.

  • The ability to independently voice security concerns to senior executives was viewed as important because such concerns could often be at odds with business managers' and system developers' desires to implement new computer applications quickly and avoid controls that would impede efficiency, user friendliness, and convenience.


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