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Example sentences for: wishing

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

Let me report that more than once last week, I was wished a Happy New Year's , though I am sure that my friends were wishing me to be happy for more than one day.
These are just some of the issues facing anyone wishing to “understand” Japan — if such a thing is indeed possible.
Ernest Jones, Freud's English biographer, famously observed that Hamlet, wishing his father dead, was unable to survive his father's actual murder because he was so crippled by guilt.
But I can't help wishing that Moyers would sometimes apply his keen mind to confronting those who disagree with him.
The Foundation, wishing to recognize Kleinman's outstanding character, commitment and public service to the people of Texas, created the award to confer prestige and honor upon leaders in the field of access to civil justice.