WISH in a Sentence

Learn WISH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for WISH, such as:

1. I will do whatever you wish.
2. Be careful what you wish for.
3. I wish you'd be more positive.
4. I wish I was/were a bit taller.
5. Just a quick note to wish you luck.

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 Meanings and Examples of WISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wish
 n.  a specific feeling of desire
 v.  have a desire for
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yes; there is a point which I wish to ascertain.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  It is about this that I wish to speak to you.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  "I have no wish to take life, not even human life," repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
4  "I wish the play didn't run in my head," she said.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
5  "I wish the friends were younger," chuckled Dr. Lanyon.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
6  "Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms," said the lawyer; and when the woman began to declare it was impossible, "I had better tell you who this person is," he added.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
7  "I wish you to judge for me entirely," was the reply.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
8  "I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll," he said in a loud, unsteady voice.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
9  I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
10  Prepared or unprepared, I wish to hear it all from you.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
11  Repeat it, word for word, if you can, because I should wish him to know what I said.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
12  No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
13  I have for some time had a particular wish to speak to you.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  I wish these fellows had tried to rob me when I was at his time of life.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Do not to others what you do not wish them to do to you.
17  I will do whatever you wish.
18  We could go to the cinema or we could go out for dinner - whatever you wish.
19  Rule out neatly any words which you don't wish the examiner to read.
20  Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first made mad.
21  I send my miss to the scattering stars and wish you a sweet dream under the light shedding through your window.
22  Who the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
23  Be careful what you wish for.
24  She did not wish to convey that they were all at fault.
25  I wish I was/were a bit taller.
26  Just a quick note to wish you luck.
27  They wish that prices would decline.
28  I wish you'd be more positive.
29  I wish to express my thanks to you for instructing my child.
30  May you always have everything you wish for a rich life together.