Example sentences for: wishes

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

  • Although Dr. Orne insisted that Sexton had given him permission to do what he thought appropriate with the tapes, his colleagues howled that he had made a travesty of doctor-patient confidentiality, Sexton's wishes be damned.

  • If Oprah Winfrey were a top government official--and a fair bit of America probably wishes she were--she would be Alan Greenspan.

  • As we all know, the grammar has been distorted by political correctness (e.g., in avoiding the masculine pronoun as a pronoun of reference), and, in a rare opinion, the author concedes that constructions like A Candidate who wishes to enter the School before his or her eighteenth birthday may be asked to write to state his or her reasons can be clumsy.

  • The mourning crowds, though, ignored his last wishes, uttering prayers and crying: “Panditji has become immortal. ”

  • An essay wishes the New York Times would ditch its new sections.


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