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Discover LudwigThe phrase "desperately wish" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a strong desire or longing for something that seems difficult to attain.
Example: "I desperately wish for peace and happiness in my life."
Alternatives: "strongly desire" or "yearn for".
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"I desperately wish to be a cowboy," Faucher concluded.
Names that will not live in history, even if their bearers desperately wish otherwise.
Finally, the 2013 elections proved that Pakistanis themselves desperately wish to experience uninterrupted representative democracy.
"How I love cricket and desperately wish I could see the play".
And I desperately wish we'd been able to design a public employment program that could have directly hired many unemployed workers, especially young people.
But as someone who makes her living from words, all I can tell you is that even now I still desperately wish my own was better.
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He's hollow, and desperately wishes that he weren't.
"Busy, overwhelmed, desperately wishing the weather would turn for the better," he says.
And I was desperately wishing for it yesterday, when Donald Rumsfeld held forth at a Pentagon briefing.
By the end, the reader, like the author, desperately wishes that Peace could have had more time.
Justine Sacco must be spending time at her father's house in Cape Town, desperately wishing for a time machine.
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