"desire grew" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone's feelings of longing or longing intensified or increased over time. For example, you could say: "As she watched the fireworks in the sky, her desire to travel grew."
Amid the paralysis and growing anger the continental desire grew for stronger and more powerful leaders.
The desire grew stronger after the death of his mother in 1999, prosecutor Marcus Köhler said.
He was raped when he was a boy, and says that, as a result, feelings of "homosexual lust and desire" grew in him, and nearly consumed him.
After she went to Mass, the desire grew and grew; a few years later, she told her mother that she wanted to become a nun.
Mrs. White, now 32, who is from Bellport, on Long Island, always wanted to return, and that desire grew when the couple adopted a son, Antonio, from Guatemala.
There, his desire grew to develop Arabic software that could reach the masses in the Middle East and to build an Egyptian technology industry that global markets would notice.
There was a desire growing in me to live somewhere else".
And when you pick it up and feel its impossibly light (923g) weight, the desire grows.
Acute focus, fuelled by desire, grows connections (synapses) among the brain cells devoted to the thing you can't help wanting.
And with every passing day the desire grows for the moment when life will reach the top, for the moment when the sluice gates open and life finally moves on.
Green Desire grows out of Bushnell's earlier work on Renaissance teaching manuals, many of which use metaphors of cultivation to explain how a schoolmaster can transform a child who naturally lacks wit into one in whom the virtues flourish.
