desire

How To Use desire In A Sentence

• This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
• You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
• Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
• This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
• The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance
• But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
• Human rebellion didn't change his desire. Christianity Today
• I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
• They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
• I have what I call perverse desire, which I think is key to being an artist of any kind. FEATURED POET: REBECCA LOUDON