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Wishing in sentence

421 examples of Wishing in a sentence

The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and retreat into our shells, wishing and imagining that those problems will somehow magically disappear.
My parents did not erect a block apartment by wishing and dreaming.
I saw one of them that featured a kitten and her mom and wishing her mom a happy Mother's Day.
Not only cities that we're building, but cities with dreams and people who are wishing to be scientists, doctors.
So for the longest time, all I would do is recall the memory of this person over and over again, wishing that I could get rid of that gut-wrenching, visceral "blah" feeling.
I don't mean romantic love, but I do mean wishing people well, for two reasons.
But also, if you're really wishing somebody well, it's very hard to judge them at the same time.
And hopefully, as a result of that, and over time, I hope that with this, and that's what I'm wishing you, you'll have a much wiser future.
It was because I was wishing them to be gentle in life, he said.
Wishing you could reach out, to connect, to comfort, to participate.
As a result, I would like to think that we poor, oppressed women actually have some useful, certainly hard-earned lessons to share, lessons that might turn out useful for anyone wishing to thrive in the modern world.
They're a little old before their time, wishing the grown-ups in their lives had said, "What you've done is enough, this effort you've put forth in childhood is enough."
She grew up wishing they lived on a farm, so given the opportunity to adopt local farm animals, she enthusiastically brings them in.
And she is paving the way and showing what's possible for African-American women seeking to climb the corporate ladder, but still wishing to wear natural hairstyles.
Think of all the wasted energy spent pretending, wishing you were someone different.
And my best friend had mistakenly one day said something about wishing he had another child.
I tried to sandwich it in between talking too much in church, wishing harm to others, being mean to my sisters.
It looks as though he's wishing that he didn't win.
I was miserable inside, and I often woke up in the morning wishing that I hadn't.
the typical pre-teen movie, having all pre-teens wishing to misbehave and be able to afford the trip to paris or some far away country away from parents? i dont really like the olsens anyways, they never could really shake off the image of michelle, on full house... in case you didnt see that, then you were lucky from the start.
Overall though, I'd recommend just watching the previews instead of seeing the movie and wishing it was more.
No matter the potency of your buds, you'll still be left wishing you'd popped in Grandma's Boy again instead.
I found myself wishing things to just "move along" as it was so easy to tell what was going to happen.
It is hard to envision how any viewer watching this film and not seeking affirmation of their GLBT lifestyle or wishing to see that of others affirmed, even through poorly realized drama, could appreciate Treading Water in any significant way.
The scarecrow on the cover doesn't even show up in this movie...and when you are wishing that those cheesy scarecrows from the first movie would come back, you know things are bad!
I found myself wishing the theater was replaying "Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger too", instead.
The whole time I was watching it I was wishing it would end!!I felt like I wasted 2hours of my life that I will never get back.
The show just crawls by, and you quickly begin wishing you were dead.
A tedious gangster film that leaves you wishing someone had edited it farce more ruthlessly.
Warren Beatty's performance as the stupid and unlikeable Bugsy Seigel leaves you wishing you were watching someone else.
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