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How to use the word Desire in a Sentence?

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We tend to confuse love and lust. Love is a deep connection that nurtures the soul, while lust is a fleeting desire that satisfies the moment.

Christen Kuikoua

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2 months ago

Serving one's brother with expectations is a self-rewarding act. Don't serve to receive, but do it to help, for the purest joy in serving is found in the genuine desire to make a positive difference in someone else's life.

Christen kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
3 months ago

eschew the desire for simplicity, and set your sights on fortitude’s ascent. Embrace obstacles, for within them lie the seeds of boundless potential. Rather than yearning for ease, crave the wisdom to navigate the labyrinth of challenges, and in their conquering, unveil the profound artistry of life’s intricate design.”

Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
4 months ago

If a teen is in a negative mood and does not have the awareness desire to feel better, they may seek out a conversation with a chatbot that they know will make them feel worse, over time, having interactions like these can erode a teens’ sense of worth, despite their knowing that they are really talking to a bot. In an emotional state of mind, it becomes less possible for an individual to consider this type of logic.

Alexandra Hamlet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Xi will find in Lula a BRICS enthusiast, openness to reforms in the global governance system and the desire to avoid automatic alignment with the US.

Luiza Duarte

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Losing interest due to performance issues is common, but HSDD is its own thing, it’s an absence of erotic thoughts and a lack of desire for sex that has to be present for six months. It also cannot be better explained by another disorder or other stressors: It can’t be due to depression. It can’t be due to a bad relationship. It can’t be due to taking an antidepressant.

Stanley Althof

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The women coming into my office are deeply distressed, they tell me ‘I used to have desire but it’s gone. I could be on a desert island with no pressures, but I just don’t have the appetite. I want it back.’ Those women have HSDD.

Sheryl Kingsberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So many people say to themselves, ‘It’s just me. I’ve got a problem.’ But actually, HSDD may be how your brain is wired, the biology is telling us there’s increased activation of inhibitory areas in the brain — the same areas that tell us it’s not OK to walk around in public naked — and those areas are switching off sexual desire. How can we tackle that? We give a hormone that would naturally give you increased sexual desire, essentially hijacking the normal system.

Waljit Dhillo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My brother’s fearlessness and his sense of adventure and freedom, his inherent artistry and creativity, and his desire for learning and growth all came from the time that he spent with my father, my father was my brother’s hero.

Shannon Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even today, both sides in the national dispute claim love for the baby – love for our country, i am aware of the enormous tension that is building up between the two camps, between the two parts of the people, and I am attentive to the desire of many citizens to relieve this tension.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The desire to land humans at a location where they might be able to extract water ice from the ground has been pushing mission planners to consider higher latitude sites, but the latter environments are typically colder and more challenging for humans and robots. If there were equatorial locations where ice might be found at shallow depth, then we’d have the best of both environments: warmer conditions for human exploration and still access to ice.

Pascal Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As the capabilities of narrow-body airplanes grow, they are taking on long-haul missions – flying increasingly further, the result is an inherent desire for increased comfort and features equivalent to wide-body airplanes.

Stephanie Faulk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prosecutor Creighton Waters’s not what these( financial) records reflect. They reflect an insatiable desire for money and a hamster wheel that’s going on for a long time.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

If you are reading this and you marched in the Black Lives Matter movement or you desire to live in a society free of racism, racial discrimination, sexism or misogyny, then you should be paying attention, because while caste oppression or discrimination does not affect all Americans, the way it manifests itself is no different than other types of oppression under capitalism.

Maya Kamble

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

I have some desire to go to the US, mostly because in Western media shown in Japan, that’s the place to go to for motorcyclists, but I most likely won’t go because just planning it is an inconvenience. Japan is abundant with destinations that motorcyclists find attractive.

Hiroo Ishida

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I planned to play this season, and I have expressed my desire to play this season, i have pushed myself throughout my entire pregnancy and have continued to work out (basketball included) on my own and with team staff - even on days where it was uncomfortable to walk, only to be inaccurately told that ‘I was not taking my workouts seriously.’.

Dearica Hamby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once again, I heard from Mr. Prime Minister the desire to provide fighter jets, and officially he declared they can begin training our pilots, when it comes to Typhoons, not everything depends just on the decision of Great Britain.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The important thing to take away is that they’re trying to balance the consumer desire for the products with a regulatory framework to ensure the safety. That’s what the FDA’s role is.

Christopher McCurdy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was impressed that there is a genuine and mutual desire to reach understandings on this issue.

Ronen Zvulun/AFP/Getty Images Netanyahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a finite pool of talent for presidential campaigns available, and in large, multi-candidate fields there’s intense competition for them. You see this before every presidential cycle when there’s an open shot at the nomination, additionally, even though President Trump starts as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, there’s a lot of trepidation among staffers about working for him. He’s been volatile in the past, and staff haven’t always ended their service with him on great terms. So there’s a desire to look at some of the other candidates in the field and jump on board.

Ryan Williams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

2011 was the first time in a long time that we came close to a debt ceiling breach, and that was a time when there was a lot of political fragmentation and there was a strong desire to essentially attach spending cuts to any debt ceiling increase.

Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can’t hide from your own history, i had nothing more than a desire to improve my lot in life.

Solomon Peña

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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