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de·sir·ing

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  1. List of paraphrases for "desiring":

    desirous, wishing, wanting

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How to use desiring in a sentence?

  1. Epicurus:

    Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

  2. George Bernard Shaw:

    Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  3. Amenorhu kwaku:

    Desiring something that you cannot possess is but a fruitless voyage.

  4. F. H. Bradley:

    The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  5. Bill Carter:

    President Donald Trump was like a hurricane you had to cover, but now I think there's a desire to move on, as the country is desiring to move on.


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