Sentence examples for making wishes from inspiring English sources

The dialogue often slips into ersatz theme-framing: "A lot of rubbish, making wishes".

The walk, which considers the power of rituals and superstitions, includes moments of walking backwards, making wishes and buying lottery tickets.

His mother had given him his name; from her he'd also acquired the habit of crossing his fingers, knocking on wood, making wishes, and looking for portents.

His 1828 poem about the dreamy view from a gate on this site celebrates the superstitious human habit of making wishes.

Waitrose says that one cake-in-a-bag was selling every seven seconds in the period around "stir-up Sunday"—the late November day when British families supposedly prepare Christmas cakes to time-hallowed family recipes, making wishes as they stir.In this section Careful what you wish for What went wrong Bah humbug!

"Meditation and water are wedded forever," Melville wrote -- and yet, meditation over with, it's easy to picture the happy tourists reaching into their pockets for lucky pennies, making wishes, hurling them toward the pools where the water danced brightest, their laughs thundered out by the water's magnificent, sublime roar.

Still others made wishes and threw coins into the water.

Primary plot device: a purloined pot of gold bestowing the ability to make wishes come true.

And they all make wishes, which are recorded in a book.

They visit it to seek blessings and make wishes.

Cena is known for his ability to make wishes come true.