Sentence examples for that I desired from inspiring English sources

"Winning trophies at Manchester United allowed me to achieve everything that I desired in football.

Not so much that I desired her, I just wanted to shut her up.

My network did not extend into any business or any private-sector industry that I desired to work for.

"As simple as it seems, I knew, after throwing my paper into the flames, I would be able to achieve all that I desired," she writes.

These were the boys that I went to school with, the boys that I feared and the boys that I desired.

Small wonder that I desired sparkly things and, as a teenager, bought myself rings from Woolworths and the new 1960s boutiques: big "glass" diamonds on base metal that dirtied and snapped within months.

At the leading edge of thought, I have already become all that I desire.

And one main species of desire that I desire to see prevail in general, if not in every instance, is that which is based on true or at least rational belief.

(I might be persuaded, especially under moral pressure, that I desire to desire something when in fact I do not).

It is far more natural to say that I desire tea than to say that I desire that I have some tea, and perhaps this naturalness is indicative of something deep about the nature of desire.

The theory meets condition (2.4) too, since I can desire things, from chocolate to crack, that I desire nobody (including myself) to desire.