Sentence examples for though they wish from inspiring English sources

Though the French often sound as though they wish they could somehow inoculate themselves against American culture, in some ways they can't get enough of it.

The ones not fronted by Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry and put together by Svengalis Dr Luke and Max Martin sound as though they wish they were.

Advocates for the museum said they understand that the recession created unforeseeable problems for Struever Brothers, though they wish the developer had been more forthcoming, and sooner, about its financial difficulties.

You might not think of a zip line as a mode of transportation, and in the opening episode of "Around the World in 80 Ways," Dennis Anderson and Robert Mariano sure look as though they wish that whoever arranges the adventures for this new program hadn't thought of it as one either.

Though they wish to remain unnamed, the donor said in MIT's statement that they were a past recipient of MIT's financial aid program.

In comparing the two health care systems, the researchers said that though they wish they had more data to work with, they found that the British system is in many ways fairer than the American system, and that it is better structured to deal with difficult decisions about expensive end-of-life cancer drugs.

The links between football and poverty and its original working-class roots remain strong, even though many clubs behave as though they wished they were not.

They had few friends, and no church (though they were Christian) or union (though they were working class) or block association (though they wished the area was safe enough for the kids to go trick-or-­treating).

Ed and Paul were excited about the possibility of reconstructing several centuries of atmospheric temperature from these trees, though they wished that there had been more time to build a larger sample collection.

Still, at any given time, small clusters of people can be found gathered in front of the store's glass, peering inside as though they wished they could enter.

A Mother's Courage shows us how caring and concerned professionals are; they don't have all the answers though they wished they did.