How to Use desirous in a Sentence

desirous

adjective

• The past is this: to have been young and desirous and to be those things no more.
  — Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• All the kids are desirous of praise and recognition, and all the teachers are harsh to the extreme.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
• On the scale between wants and needs, the GrillGun Basic falls on the desirous end of the spectrum.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2020
• The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.
  — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2020
• The media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback do well.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• The media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback do well.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2021
• For people who work downtown, the most desirous high-end neighborhoods are in the Inner Loop.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
• For the bored, desirous quarantine viewer, the movie is simply a blank canvas.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 26 June 2020
• Suppose a firm that is crafting an AI system is desirous of letting the world know about how great their AI is going to be.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• The Aries moon is making the evening desirous, ravenous, and rapturous.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2021
• Hardy is said to be desirous of helping others to feel included and to be successful.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2022
• However, right now, the most desirous item is ordering Chongqing-style hot pot at a restaurant.
  — Ling Ma, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
• Ferguson profiles as a 3-and-D piece in a league filled with teams increasingly desirous of them.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 20 June 2017
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• The airspace above the capital is a no-fly zone, off-limits to anyone desirous of slipping the surly bonds of Earth and gazing down at what, quite frankly, is a pretty handsome town.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• The defendant has family and friends who are desirous of assisting in the posting of bond,'' Robbins wrote.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Even as a young woman my mother had always been a gallus thing: a chancer, gregarious, desirous of any shiny bauble.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• As background, in the third chapter of the illustrious tale, the various characters get wet and are desirous of drying off.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Given the state of the Texans' rebuild, inquiring about Saints veterans is less desirous.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022
• Some stories are classic film noir-style, in which an unscrupulous woman leads a desirous man to his own destruction.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• The riding schools now open are too limited to accommodate the hundreds of persons who are desirous of learning.
  — Tammy La Gorce, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• But the Chinese government seemed desirous of limiting the fallout.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• These people purported, in Charlottesville, to be part of, desirous of a Christian nation.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2022
• That is a matter of national sentiment, and polls show that in the years since Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014, Ukrainians are more desirous than ever of joining the Western alliance.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• The companies making generative AI apps are certainly desirous of making money from these apps, though how to do so is still up in the air.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• Possibly due to wanting to grab hold of whatever treasures the AI steals, or maybe out of an act of hatred toward other humans and desirous of having the AI wreak havoc.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• He’s flown to the nation’s capital from his home in Wyoming, where many of his neighbors are similarly desirous of personal space, or are a little paranoid, or both.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• The temperamental Moon forms a tense square against desirous Venus just after midnight, brewing some late-night issues.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Everywhere in his poetry there are signs of this carrying on—mixtures of the deliberative and the desirous.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• Libra longs to rarify, purify, and create romantic castles in the sky, while Scorpio labors in the scullery with the creepy crawlers, pushing us to penetrate our desirous depths with no shame.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 3 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024