Sentence for wishing | Use wishing in a sentence

Sentences with wishing. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use wishing in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for wishing.

  • She laughed, not wishing to cry. (8)
  • Was this like wishing to avoid her? (4)
  • Grandada writes of wishing to see him. (10)
  • Wishing seemed to her senseless as life was. (10)
  • I was just thinking of you, and wishing for you. (9)
  • She was wishing to ask a multitude of questions. (10)
  • It was part of my reason for wishing you to work. (10)
  • She had been decided in wishing for a Miss Weston. (4)
  • I have most urgent reasons for wishing to stay here. (6)
  • I knew he would come, without wishing to hurry him. (10)
  • When I am in company with him, I will not be wishing. (4)
  • My aunt is acting like a sensible woman in wishing for you. (4)
  • Wishing her good-morning, Hilary began to mount the stairs. (8)
  • She had already made her failure in wishing to play the part. (9)
  • Wishing to end the painful scene, Hilary went up to Mr. Stone. (8)
  • I am begging you to leave me, and wishing it with all my soul. (10)
  • She thought he was wishing to speak to her unheard by the rest. (4)
  • She pushed him gently from her, wishing to be alone in her trial. (13)
  • I have never greatly loved an author without wishing to write like him. (9)
  • Is not each wishing the other at that end of the earth from which he came? (9)
  • Andrew asked, waking up a little and not wishing to be excluded altogether. (10)
  • She was a good patriot: wherefore the reason for wishing to know more of her? (10)
  • She could honestly summon bright light to her eyes in wishing the man were married. (10)
  • But he found himself valuing it supremely, and wonderingly wishing to be worthy of it. (9)
  • He has done you no wrong whatever in admiring your daughter, and wishing to marry her. (9)
  • Heartily wishing him abed with the rest of mankind, Richard rowed in and jumped ashore. (10)
  • When it came to this point, Pemberton, not wishing to embarrass his associates, resigned. (13)
  • It was precisely what Emma would have wished, had she deemed it possible enough for wishing. (4)
  • He took it and sat looking into the muzzle, wishing it might go off by accident and kill him. (9)
  • She gazed at her chamber window above, wishing to be wafted thither to her seclusion within. (10)
  • He scolded her for wishing to taste battle, and compared her to a bad swimmer on deep shores. (10)
  • On my wishing to know why she did it, her reply was that it was to make the dead people hear. (10)
  • They began their walk, and Mrs. Morland was not entirely mistaken in his object in wishing it. (4)
  • When she was nearly home he said goodbye, not wishing, for some dark reason, to be seen with her. (8)
  • Far from wishing to hurt her, he desired to preserve her, and everyone, from trouble and annoyance. (8)
  • I assure you, Miss Anne, it prevents my wishing to see them at our house so often as I otherwise should. (4)
  • At one time, she liked Mrs. Marsett best absent: in musing on her, wishing her well, having said the adieu. (10)
  • I impeached him, and he pleaded guilty, clearly not wishing to take me with him, nor would he give me Mlle. (10)
  • He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be. (4)
  • Carinthia was sure she had the name of the nobleman wishing to bestow his title upon the beautiful Henrietta. (10)
  • He was wishing to get the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering from her mania for Mr. Elton. (4)
  • No ones indeed, could meet John Codman Ropes without wishing to be his friend, or without finding a friend in him. (9)
  • She had discovered how much he, and therefore his party, suspected, and now she had reasons for wishing him away. (10)
  • He asked her where she was to be met, where written to, during the Summer, in case of his wishing to send her news. (10)
  • He was a wild man, cased in the knowledge of jurisprudence, and wishing to enter the ranks of the soberly blissful. (10)
  • He seemed astonished at the summons, and looked as if half wishing and half fearing to be softened by what I might say. (4)
  • Nothing said he of the sorceries of Goorelka, and I, not wishing to provoke the Princess, suffered his dread to exist. (10)
  • Some things were imparted to her without her asking or wishing, and merely in virtue of her youth and impressionability. (9)
  • Rose met the young men strolling on the lawn; and, with her usual bluntness, accused Laxley of wishing to insult her friend. (10)
  • As soon as we saw that the meal was almost ready to be served we made a move to leave, not wishing to interrupt this ceremony. (20)
  • He again tried to stand, evidently wishing to get to his desk to record this thought, but, failing, looked painfully at Hilary. (8)
  • She was listening to Isabella Lawrence Finchley, wishing she might have followed to some end the above line of her meditations. (10)
  • As the former raised his hand to his mouth to taste the water, wishing indeed that it were wine, he suddenly heard a strange noise. (5)
  • Like sculptured effigies they might be seen Upon their marriage-tomb, the sword between; Each wishing for the sword that severs all. (10)
  • There had been no hope that he could survive, and his agonies made a speedy dissolution desirable by those most wishing him to live. (10)
  • Having quieted their suspicions, Cartier lured two of the young red-men into his ship, wishing to {5} show them, on his return, to the King. (19)
  • He had thought himself bound to acknowledge that he had been the Foolish Young Fellow, wishing, possibly, to abjure the fact by an set of penance. (10)

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