Get to know Wish better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like want or desire. In Dutch this translates to wens.
Wish in a sentence
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Wish meaning
- A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
- An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
- The thing desired or longed for.
Synonyms of Wish
Wish vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Wish
- The main meaning on this page is: A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen. | An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power. | The thing desired or longed for.
- Useful related words include: want, desire, like, care.
- Possible Dutch translations are: wens.
- In the example corpus, wish often appears in combinations such as: wish to, they wish, not wish.
Example sentences (20)
I clearly recall many of those “wish visits,” where we would go to the home of a family with a Wish Kid to find out what his or her wish was.
The stone exacts a heavy toll upon the wisher, however, granting the wish in a way that either ironically negates the wish or takes something from the wisher worth far more than the wish.
Confide in your closest people what you wish for, and let that wish start to take shape in the world.
It’s a time when we wish we applied to the University of Miami, invested in new gloves … and again, wish we applied to UMiami as we head to our 8 a.m. classes in what feels like a cold, dark and many times, damp dystopia unbeknownst to the outside world.
Khalil has also made her way through the silver screen by taking different iconic roles in movies like The Cell, 122, The Suit, Sheik Jackson, Curfew and lately Wish Fi Wish, which was a great success across the Middle East.
She said: "If Sinn Fein wish to debate law and order, if Sinn Fein wish to debate how we can support the gardai, I have no problem in standing over Fine Gael's record of law and order, Fine Gael's record of supporting members of An Garda Siochana.
The 11-year-old is in Phoenix with his family for the Super Bowl, thanks to the nonprofit organization Make-A-Wish, which grants critically ill children a wish as they undergo treatment.
The cadet program accepts youth between the ages of 12-18 who have a desire to learn more about the air element of the Canadian Forces, wish to develop the attributes of leadership and good citizenship and who wish to promote physical fitness.
Fionn and his family are thrilled with the magnificent machine, which saw Fionn’s wish being granted by the Make a Wish Foundation, with the help of Abbeyleix gardaí.
For 44 years, Disney and Make-A-Wish have worked together to deliver joy when it's needed most to "Wish Kids" and their families.
He said: "I just wish this didn't happen to me and I wish I was living like I used to do.
I really wish I could freely speak about this issue but out of respect, allow me to just say, I wish President Lungu acted more decisive and clinical, but he has always been running from behind.
I wish it wasn’t the case, I wish the Democrats would just let the voters vote.
Jackson said that he was excited to work with Make-A-Wish for the first time and that his store got to be involved in granting a child’s wish.
Speaking during an X Spaces chat, she said: "I wish y'all never learned the word Ozempic, that's one thing I wish.
We know that a majority of our fans have cherished this wish for years, and we felt that our 125th anniversary was the perfect moment to fulfill that wish.
However, periodically the game has special event Wish banners that increase the chance of getting a certain character or weapon, unlike the standard Wish banner.
I am very clearly seeing here not just Germany's wish to save its own banks, which are in large part the lenders to Southern European countries that have encountered difficulties, but also its wish to save the euro and the eurozone as a whole.
I wish it didn't because I wish things were better, you know, but I think that it has some powerful, important messages,” he tells ABC Audio.
I wish there were fewer, and I wish the theater wasn’t serving food, but I’m glad I got to see it before streaming became an option.
Common combinations with wish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wish to 85×
- they wish 19×
- not wish 15×
- you wish 14×
- and wish 13×
- who wish 11×
- wish you 11×
- we wish 10×
- to wish 8×
- wish could 8×