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Example sentences for: wish

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

I wish I had known that: I wouldn't have spent countless hours on the phone with him after that meeting, keeping him up to speed as we worked throughout the fall to expose the goings-on in the Oval Office.
But I too wish there were more worthwhile things to watch--say, an enlightening discussion of microeconomic theory by a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.
The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.
His wish was to have his clothed skeleton displayed, not a dressed, mummified corpse.
Republicans wish Clinton were dead.