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Example sentences for: wishes

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One wishes for a Tracy Kidder to write about the same subject.
We reserve the right, of course, to ignore the voters' wishes.
Back in 1931, however, when Bodenheim was coming into his own as a literary maverick, New York publisher Horace Liveright issued his novel— Naked on Roller Skates . The title is a grabber, but the book itself would be anathema to feminists since it features a heroine who wishes to be beaten and degraded:
(One wishes the LAT had noted here that Washington produced virtually no non-budgetary legislation last year even without such a distraction.)
The affairs were made up of wishes collaged with phone calls and unsatisfying visits, letters, and diary entries, gifts of art, and the frugal lunches of weak tea and store-bought cake on which Cornell physically subsisted.