DESIROUS in a Sentence
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292 example sentences for DESIROUS, 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. The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit.
5. One is afraid to glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so.
2. I have no desire to discuss the matter further.
3. I had a strong desire to help and care for people.
4. The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit.
5. One is afraid to glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so.
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Meanings and Examples of DESIROUS
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desirous
a. having or expressing desire for something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Candide being desirous of selecting from among the best, marked out about one-twentieth of them who seemed to be sociable men, and who all pretended to merit his preference.
2 He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering.
3 Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things.
4 One is afraid to glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so.
5 Even at that time any one who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste.
6 If we are to credit the monk Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
7 Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous of playing with him.
8 They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
9 The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures.
10 In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled Horace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
11 Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies.
12 The troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of fighting.
13 It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
14 One would have said that, while desirous of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be close at hand.
15 Nevertheless, d'Artagnan was desirous of examining the appearance of this impertinent personage who ridiculed him.
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1 A young lady accustomed to tuition is desirous of meeting with a situation in a private family where the children are under fourteen.
2 The president is strongly desirous that you should attend the meeting.
3 The President is strongly desirous that you should be in charge of the hydraulid project.
4 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.
5 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.
6 All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
7 When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is gazing upon you and sunshine, that is the future I desire.
8 In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
9 The cause of suffering is selfish desire, whether it is the desire for pleasure, desire for revenge, or simply desire for a long life.
10 The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit.
11 We soon believe what we desire.
12 I had a strong desire to help and care for people.
13 The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
14 I have no desire to discuss the matter further.
15 Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.