DESIRE in a Sentence

Learn DESIRE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
292 example sentences for DESIRE, such as:
1. We soon believe what we desire.
2. I have no desire to discuss the matter further.
3. I had a strong desire to help and care for people.
4. If the eye do no admire, the heart will not desire.
5. The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DESIRE
desire
 n.  something that is desired
 n.  an inclination to want things
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness, his desire for change and freedom.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  But now all desire for change had vanished, and the sight of the little enclosure gave him a warm sense of continuance and stability.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  During the first months Ethan alternately burned with the desire to see Mattie defy her and trembled with fear of the result.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  At the moment, however, his one desire was to avoid the long drive with her behind the ancient sorrel who never went out of a walk.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
5  Scarlett had a sudden treacherous desire to cry out, "But you've been happy, and you and Mother aren't alike," but she repressed it, fearing that he would box her ears for her impertinence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  "I know," answered Gerald, who did not care to disclose that Pork had supplied this valuable bit of information, or that Philippe had departed for the West at the express desire of his family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  And mingled with her frenzied desire to be free of Charles and safely back at Tara, an unmarried girl again, ran the knowledge that she had only herself to blame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  I will pass over the impropriety of your appearing publicly while in mourning, realizing your warm desire to be of assistance to the hospital.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  I am not a soldier and I have no desire to seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  But it soon passed, for there was no room in her mind for anything except a radiant happiness and a driving desire to be alone with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  So Aunt Pitty had her party, and, at the last minute, a guest she did not expect, or desire, arrived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  So firmly did he stand and so bitterly did he contest Sherman's desire to pass down the valley toward Atlanta that finally the Yankees drew back and took counsel with themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
2  Therefore, if you desire love, try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving love, that the more you give, the more you get.
3  All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
4  When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is gazing upon you and sunshine, that is the future I desire.
5  In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
6  The cause of suffering is selfish desire, whether it is the desire for pleasure, desire for revenge, or simply desire for a long life.
7  The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit.
8  We soon believe what we desire.
9  I had a strong desire to help and care for people.
10  The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
11  I have no desire to discuss the matter further.
12  Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
13  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.
14  If the eye do no admire, the heart will not desire.
15  Horses need to satisfy their desire for space and freedom.