Sentence examples for wishing someone from inspiring English sources

Next year we'll be wishing someone could.

Wishing someone good luck: "May the odds be ever in your favour".

Is this a good thing, or has it actually devalued the entire tradition of wishing someone a happy birthday?

You're left wishing someone would try creating a one-woman show out of the same source material, just for her.

I found myself wishing someone would give Bob Kerrey a speaking slot at the Democratic convention, just so I could experience a packed arena going dead quiet.

Ritualized moments of everyday communication — greeting someone, answering a telephone call, wishing someone a happy birthday — are full of these canned phrases that we learn to perform with rote precision at an early age.

I wish someone would.

I wish someone could tell me.

I wish someone would help us.

He wished someone else had written it.

I wished someone had said something".