Sentence examples for desired to check from inspiring English sources
It also desired to check the wild race for academic distinction and "to divert some part of the rapidly swelling stream of students into channels of a more practical character".
The visit, Ms. Pasternak writes, was prompted by Ms. Stewart's desire to check out the new unmarried man in town.
Twitter use has convinced me social media is addictive, specifically the desire to check responses to something we've posted, seeking the rush of approval, reassurance or argument.
Mrs. Dayton sympathizes with her son's desire to check sports scores on the Web and spend time on a Wii game console.
These days it would be truer to talk of an insatiable desire to check our e-mail and Twitter accounts, and to play a few games of Candy Crush Saga (as a British parliamentarian was recently caught doing during a committee meeting).
She appended what she said was one of the Between team's favorite quotes, from the British pop philosopher Alain de Botton: "True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence".
This desire to check is strong, unnevering compunction and one that is assuaged by a simple bootie.
Sure enough, my TechCrunch colleague Mike Butcher quickly became a victim of my desire to check out how serious a security issue this really is.
I can't say I've ever had a burning desire to check my tire tread while jotting down a note, but I suppose it must happen to some people.
If I could not check my smartphone for a while, I would feel a desire to check it.
