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
• But Nelson wasn’t the only singer to launch from its desirous refrain.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
• Constant human contact is seen more as risky than desirous.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 22 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