Sentence examples for desire not only from inspiring English sources

Singer honors a child's desire not only for adventure but for noble deeds, for loyalty and friendship.

In my case, there was a desire not only to escape the genre intermittently, but the role of the novelist.

You feel he is always fighting his own rising desire not only for Mrs Alving but for the provocatively obliging Regina.

Bryant burns with desire not only to win a fourth title, but a first without Shaquille O'Neal, or any companion superstar.

Such a role, they said, would satisfy his desire not only to use his political skills but also to indulge his interest in policy.

Perhaps it is simply that sexual desire not only thrives on secrets but also shrivels once it is coaxed into the naked spotlight.

"The desirable" to refer to what ought to be desired, not only to what could be desired or what is desired.

Society desires not only the correct amount of wheat but also that it be consumed more or less evenly over the crop year, with a surplus to carry over in case of a partial failure of the next year's crop.

And why does his play end with the loaded statement that the elderly Afghan rebel Abdullah Khan desires not only to "cleanse" his country, but to "cross oceans" and spread Islam as far and wide as possible?

The fiscal plan has drastically reduced the amount of surplus dollars available to develop the kind of advanced weaponry the administration desires, not only for its missile shield but also for modernizing conventional forces.

In computer-aided engineering, it is desired not only to observe but also measure these three-dimensional (3D) objects.