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How to use the word desiring in a Sentence?

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The most charitable spin I can put on this is that they really thought they needed to do something to solve that, it's a criminal, violent act that's happening. Regulating legal firearm owners is not going to have the effect that they are desiring on that.

Amy Patrick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a criminal, violent act that's happening. Regulating legal firearm owners is not going to have the effect that they are desiring on that.

Amy Patrick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Donald Trump was like a hurricane you had to cover, but now I think there's a desire to move on, as the country is desiring to move on.

Bill Carter

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Samsung Electronics have been preparing Galaxy Fold for a long period and there's no change to our direction to provide premium experiences for customers desiring innovation.

Lee Jong-min

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Desiring something that you cannot possess is but a fruitless voyage.

Amenorhu kwaku

added by JP03
9 years ago

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Simone de Beauvoir

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

F. H. Bradley

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

Robert Mallet

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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