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Example sentences for: wishing

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When George Bush sneered during the 1992 campaign that America needed more families like the Waltons and fewer like the Simpsons, you knew it was over for him--and not only because he seemed to be wishing for an end to electricity and indoor plumbing.
It is quite likely that those calling you "Joe" are unaware of your reasons for wishing to be called Dr. (Prudie does not grasp, however, how use of your last name provides greater safety than your first.
on and on reading a friend's new novel wishing to be more kind
Samuel Johnson said Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and many postal observers believe that the Universal Service Obligation (USO) is the last refuge of a postal service wishing to protect inefficiency, monopoly profits, or economic rents.
, and wishing I had my own four-dog-strong 6:15 wake-up squad of bounding, tail-wagging quadrupeds to help me out here.