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How to use the word wishing in a Sentence?

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Clients are being called Nazis, people are wishing that they are dead. These are human beings. These are hockey players. These are guys contributing to our society, paying millions of dollars in taxes to support the U.S. and Canada and doing all kinds of charity work back home. Stop looking at them as aggressors. Stop being racist.

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Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If Leana Wen plans are to go to a 40-to-50-person New Year's Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a Happy New Year ? I would strongly recommend that, this year, we do not do that.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He doesn't really usually talk like that, like, wishing for things.

Emad Shargi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
2 years ago

We had a 73 % increase in the numbers of events hosted by employers over the same period of time, we saw a surge in organizations wishing to recruit from Morgan's campus all stating they were diversifying their workforce. The surge has not stopped. It's just been a constant flow ever since it's started. I would say it's been record numbers.

Seana Coulter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I feel great now, better than I have for many years, getting older happens to everyone. It’s pointless complaining about it or wishing you could change.

Britt Ekland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Wishing on a star is simulating a desired future, if Bertram Malle then wish for something that Bertram Malle can control, Bertram Malle might strengthen Bertram Malle goal and initiate planning and persistence ; if Bertram Malle wish for something Bertram Malle can not control, Bertram Malle might at least have the momentary glow of an imagined world.

Bertram Malle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm excited. I'm super excited, i don't know where I'm gonna be at. Obviously, I've watched a ton of tape, 49ers, Falcons, whatever it is, football, in general. But like I said, I'm excited to find out where I'm going to be. I think I'm going to be able to learn any offense that I'm put into, any system I'm put into, and find a way to be successful. I'm just looking forward to it. Don't know where it's gonna be. I'm wishing I knew just as much as you guys if not more. But I'm looking forward to it coming up soon.

Matt Ryan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

May God bless you today on your birthday and every day after. May you be comforted by His presence in your life, and always follow His guiding light. Wishing you the happiest of birthdays and a wonderful year to come

Birthday

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Wishing the happiest of birthdays for the best of friends! Praying for God’s richest blessings for you over the year ahead.

Birthday

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Congratulations on your birthday! Wishing you a truly fabulous day.

Birthday

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

I woke up today wondering why the day was so beautiful and then I suddenly remembered it’s your birthday and I understood why. Wishing my favorite twins a very happy birthday.

Birthday

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

I think about a year after college I realized I don't want to waste any more time worrying about this and wishing I was some other way, i think being gay is one of the blessings of my life. And it made me a better person, it made me a better reporter.

Anderson Cooper

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have not ordered insufficiently, we expect on the whole some 130 million doses from Moderna and BioNTech which will be enough to offer the vaccine to anyone wishing to be vaccinated.

Jens Spahn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

added by kael_b
3 years ago

The challenges that face our country will demand the best of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Harris -- and the best of us all, we must come together for the sake of our families and neighbors, and for our nation and its future. There is no problem that will not yield to the gathered will of a free people. Laura and I pray for our leaders and their families. We ask for God's continued blessings on our country. And we urge all Americans to join us in wishing our next President Donald Trump and Vice President well as they prepare to take up their important duties.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Gardy is one of the best of all time. Loved talking baseball with him. Wishing him and his family all the best.

Mark Gubicza

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Among the key reasons for wishing to spend another day in my life is the hope.”

Eyad Al-Samman

added by eyadalsamman
3 years ago

Among the key reasons for wishing to spend another day in my life is the hope.

Eyad Al-Samman

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I think that Prime Minister Abe is a very smart man and I have no doubt that when he put it to the IOC that we postpone the Games... he had in mind a positive economic stimulus for Tokyo and Japan in what would otherwise be a downturn, i think there will be a lot of countries and cities around the world wishing for a similar opportunity.

John Coates

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I burst into tears. And though it may just have been the cold wind, I think Trooper Schwartz teared up a little as well, before wishing me well and walking away.

Sarosh Ashraf Janjua

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is the most insidious hateful rhetoric of anyone who exists in political punditry. Rick Wilson is wishing Coronavirus on Melania Trump. It doesnt matter if the wish is aimed at a First Lady, or a doctor, a teacher, a policewoman. It is despicable. He deserves no platform.

The Hills Joe Concha

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Rush is both a colleague and a dear friend, and we know he will handle the situation with courage and grace, we know millions of people nationwide join me and all of iHeart in wishing him a full recovery.

Rich Bressler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

President Trump remembered, and as Chung Eui-yong said well-wishing remarks about Chairman Kim Jong Un's birthday, President Trump requested that it'd be good if President Moon can deliver that message to Chairman Kim Jong Un, as far as I know, such message has been delivered to the North in an appropriate way.

Chung Eui-yong

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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