Sentences with desire
de·sire
D d - I had a strong desire to help and care for people.
- She had remarried and desired a child with her new husband. [VERB noun]
- Desire and Fear come together; when there is desire, there is fear.
- Well if you have the desire to last long.
- Teenage sex, for instance, may come not out of genuine desire but from a need to get love.
- It never occurred to him that she might not desire him. [VERB noun]
- Condition of low libido or diminished sex desire in men is less common.
- Desire, generally interchangeable with the other words here in the sense of ‘to long for,’ stresses intensity or ardor [to desire success]; wish is not so strong a term as , desire and has special application when an unrealizable longing is meant [he wished summer were here]; want, specifically suggesting a longing for something lacking or needed, generally is a more informal equivalent of , wish [she wants, or wishes, to go with us]; crave suggests desire to gratify a physical appetite or an urgent need [to crave affection]
- I desire to speak with you.
- She has desired him since they first met.
- The mayor desires your presence at the next meeting.
- A desire for fame.
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
- His desire for her kept him awake at night.
- Too much desire can seriously affect one’s judgment.