These are word's examples related to wished. Click on any word to go to its word's detail page. Or, go to the definition of wished.
I wish I hadn't overindulged so much last night.
He wished he was more muscular.
I wish I'd never volunteered to do the washing up.
I wish you'd do something about your bedroom - it's a real mess.
I do wish you'd stop going off with my car without asking me beforehand.
They can also contain playful and fantasy themes, as well as wished-for or feared events.
He thereby wished to purify mathematics of any reliance on the external world.
This meant that a state legislature could, if it wished, itself select the electors.
The unemployed wished for more financing for unemployment benefits and social assistance and single parents claimed more financing of child benefits and family benefits.
He wished also to know from the rule the wise disposition which is prudently appointed concerning the ordering of unfamiliar matters.
She was intermittently confused and disorientated and wished to be discharged.
The central committee wished to offer them conditional support.
This is the essence of the claim that post-processualists support 'pasts as wished for'.
Officers who wished to leave the southern social order undisturbed were anathema because they placed the nation, not just the party, at risk.
Although the bereaved wished to hold their memorial service in private, the authorities had different plans.
Growers were also allowed to grow any crop they wished, with restrictions placed on the production of fruits and vegetables.
This was unquestionably the way they were seen + and wished to be seen + by the popular classes.
Participants were asked to grade the additional characteristics and could re-grade the original characteristics if they wished.
However, it wished to move out of the usual definition of preventive interventions as discrete procedures addressed to a particular disease.
He did not translate them laboriously into words - unless he wished to communicate with verbal persons.
