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Example sentences for: wishful

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

Some are wishful thinking.
On Putin, the Moscow Times said there is "a shocking amount of wishful thinking masquerading as analysis."
Critical thinking has been replaced by wishful thinking.
Yet he seems to think that if he allows us weak-minded mortals to perceive that naked truth too directly, we will succumb to creationism or mysticism or theories such as Gaia, which is wishful thinking dressed up as science.
This is wishful thinking indeed for New York Democrats, who are scrabbling to find a strong candidate, especially since Andrew Cuomo declared yesterday that he would not run.