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Wishes in a sentence
Wishes meaning
plural of wish
Using Wishes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of wish
- In the example corpus, wishes often appears in combinations such as: wishes to, best wishes, wishes for.
Context around Wishes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wishes
- In this selection, "wishes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, born, company, event, specific, cross and coming stand out and add context to how "wishes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 13 000 wishes nationwide and, a genie wishes that wishes, best wishes and birthday wishes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wishes" sits close to words such as engaging, experiencing and utility, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wishes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Little Wishes has granted over 13,000 wishes nationwide and counting! (11 words)
There are even wishes specific to children; including wishes for children and wishes by child Sims. (16 words)
The robots are interactive and are programmed to sing birthday wishes and wishes for special occasions. (16 words)
Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn wishes for his people to strike back at the Centauri for what they did, and Ambassador Londo Mollari of the Centauri wishes for his people to become again the great empire they once were. (40 words)
Basically, despite the fact that every character/star rarity bears a particular rate of appearance from Wishes, some players will receive an added bonus depending on the number of total Wishes they've made during a particular banner. (38 words)
Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada granted 158 wishes during FY2019 and relies on the generous contributions of individuals, like Adam S. Kutner, to continue to make life-changing wishes possible for children with critical illnesses in southern Nevada. (38 words)
One sends good wishes to these most unfortunate of families and wishes them that all turns out well and very good for them all! (24 words)
Little Wishes has granted over 13,000 wishes nationwide and counting! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
There are even wishes specific to children; including wishes for children and wishes by child Sims.
He is father to all his subjects and brings together his people, the different clans, and indeed every well-wisher who wishes Cross River State well and who wishes his kingdom well too.
He is urging anyone who wishes to take a similarly exciting trip and who wishes to explore France and open their doors to new friendships to get in touch with the twinning group.
McKenzie, of Brown Street, Tyldesley, would also yell vile statements at her, such as saying he wishes she wasn’t born, wishes she died, and that she would never leave him.
The Company wishes to thank Mark Ireton for his service to the company and wishes him well in his future endeavors.
While the Chronicle Banner uses Event Wishes and the Standard Banner uses Standard Wishes, there’s currently a lot of overlap between the featured characters in both of these banners.
Basically, despite the fact that every character/star rarity bears a particular rate of appearance from Wishes, some players will receive an added bonus depending on the number of total Wishes they've made during a particular banner.
One sends good wishes to these most unfortunate of families and wishes them that all turns out well and very good for them all!
The funeral, as per his wishes, was all white and many of the guests respected his wishes and dressed in all white.
The month will end with all your wishes coming true (or, at the very least, a better understanding of what your wishes will rush through your 11th house of hopes and dreams, realigning your vision.
Little Wishes has granted over 13,000 wishes nationwide and counting!
Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada granted 158 wishes during FY2019 and relies on the generous contributions of individuals, like Adam S. Kutner, to continue to make life-changing wishes possible for children with critical illnesses in southern Nevada.
The robots are interactive and are programmed to sing birthday wishes and wishes for special occasions.
While the wishes of the victim should certainly be honored, in certain instances——those wishes should only go so far.
Wish Heroes are among the most important and loyal supporters of Make-A-Wish who celebrate the transformational power of wishes and, through personal fundraising, ensure local wishes are granted for years to come.
A despotic Government tries to make everybody do what it wishes; a Liberal Government tries, as far as the safety of society will permit, to allow everybody to do as he wishes.
Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn wishes for his people to strike back at the Centauri for what they did, and Ambassador Londo Mollari of the Centauri wishes for his people to become again the great empire they once were.
Another example of contradiction is if a man talking to a genie wishes that wishes couldn't come true.
For either he wishes but is not able, or he is able but does not wish, or he neither wishes nor is able.
If a program wishes additional resources (or wishes to shed resources) such as memory, it triggers an interrupt to get the kernel's attention.
Phrases with wishes
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with wishes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wishes to 51×
- best wishes 25×
- wishes for 20×
- and wishes 15×
- wishes of 15×
- he wishes 14×
- wishes and 14×
- the wishes 12×
- wishes she 9×
- who wishes 7×