Wondering how to use Wishful in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as desirous or aspirant.
Wishful meaning
- Wished-for; desired, wanted.
- Expressing a wish or longing for something.
- Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
Synonyms of Wishful
Using Wishful
- The main meaning on this page is: Wished-for; desired, wanted. | Expressing a wish or longing for something. | Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
- Useful related words include: desirous, aspirant, undesirous, jealous.
- In the example corpus, wishful often appears in combinations such as: wishful thinking, is wishful, of wishful.
Context around Wishful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wishful
- In this selection, "wishful" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, consideration, remains, mere, thinking, consideration and green stand out and add context to how "wishful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include more than wishful thinking and allusion as wishful thinking on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wishful" sits close to words such as asbury, azam and bally, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wishful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But that proved wishful thinking. (5 words)
Well, it’s not wishful thinking. (6 words)
But this is just wishful thinking at this point. (9 words)
Europe’s farming sector “must be relieved of the extreme and wishful green ideology forced upon it in recent years… There can be no greater offence to European farmers than saying that they are the most responsible for climate change,” Nagy said. (42 words)
The only thing that could be called a Peace plan is Zelensky's proposal because the Chinese peace plan, while it's not a peace plan, it is a set of wishful consideration, wishful thinking, but is not a peace plan. (41 words)
All too often in politics, a comet can burn itself into a falling star – although every prediction of Trump’s demise (at least among the GOP electorate) has proven to be wishful thinking by his enemies. (36 words)
One person tried to guess what the shoot was for, or maybe it was wishful thinking, commenting on the post, "Album promo shoot? (23 words)
Was the announcement premature and wishful thinking, savvy public relations or something else entirely? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
The only thing that could be called a Peace plan is Zelensky's proposal because the Chinese peace plan, while it's not a peace plan, it is a set of wishful consideration, wishful thinking, but is not a peace plan.
All too often in politics, a comet can burn itself into a falling star – although every prediction of Trump’s demise (at least among the GOP electorate) has proven to be wishful thinking by his enemies.
Andrew's hopes to return to public life after Jeffrey Epstein scandal is no more than 'wishful thinking':.
But this is just wishful thinking at this point.
For now, the idea of a Chick-fil-A location opening anytime soon in Bozeman is nothing more than wishful thinking.
He will, no doubt, fire shots if he manages to get on the same stage as his ex-ally, yet the idea that he will knock Trump down remains wishful thinking.
I'm not sure whether it's wishful thinking or if Ukraine's President Zelensky is on to something, but he wondered out loud whether or not Vladimir Putin was still alive.
Lowell characterized this allusion as “wishful” thinking on the parts of Bobulinski and another team member.
One person tried to guess what the shoot was for, or maybe it was wishful thinking, commenting on the post, "Album promo shoot?
Outside of that, whatever the UPP says is mere wishful thinking.
Perhaps the image so many world leaders have had of him was based on wishful thinking.
That sounds more like wishful thinking than anything on Chandler’s part.
The Tories have surely demonstrated nostalgia, short-termism, and wishful thinking in abundance.
Was the announcement premature and wishful thinking, savvy public relations or something else entirely?
Well, it’s not wishful thinking.
At first glance, such analysis – tinged with wishful thinking – seems self-evident.
Be skeptical of offers or alluring romantic prospects that appear in September, when the fine print seems to be written in invisible ink or you may be blinded by surface appearances and wishful thinking.
But that proved wishful thinking.
Call it wishful thinking, but I hope that the Democrats who are disappointed by this failure of Biden’s Department of Education will take this as an indication that we’re quite simply doing too much.
Europe’s farming sector “must be relieved of the extreme and wishful green ideology forced upon it in recent years… There can be no greater offence to European farmers than saying that they are the most responsible for climate change,” Nagy said.
Common combinations with wishful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wishful thinking 92×
- is wishful 9×
- of wishful 7×
- was wishful 7×
- just wishful 6×
- and wishful 6×
- be wishful 5×
- than wishful 5×
- as wishful 5×
- not wishful 3×