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Example sentences for "sudden desire"

  • He felt a sudden desire to find out what it was that was so strange about the woman.

  • Raskolnikov had a sudden desire to say something exceptionally pleasant to them all.

  • He had a sudden desire to take her in his arms and stroke her soft hair and tell her he loved her.

  • He glanced at Mademoiselle Blanche with his most languishing smile, and Jules felt a sudden desire to kick him.

  • He burst out laughing, and he felt a sudden desire to pat her on the cheek as he might have done to a child.

  • The Young Doctor, glancing up from his soup, felt a sudden desire to tease.

  • Rose-Marie, listening to her, felt a sudden desire to kneel there, on the dirty tenement floor, and say a little prayer of thanksgiving.

  • Despite the Superintendent's expression--despite the gentle tone of her voice, Rose-Marie felt a sudden desire to cry out against the irony of it all.

  • Altogether Toni presented a pathetic little figure; and Herrick felt a sudden desire to know her safely at home, hidden from inquisitive eyes.

  • Herrick felt a sudden desire to probe beneath the surface.

  • They say I'm common and ignorant, and so I am," said Toni passionately, with a sudden desire to blurt out the conversation she had overheard on that miserable day in August.

  • They used to have regular chattering fits of this kind when a sudden desire to stir the muddy depths of their childhood would possess them.

  • And forthwith, in his delight at the meeting and with a sudden desire to be confidential, Fauchery buttonholed him and said in a low voice: "It's tomorrow.

  • Anstice felt a sudden desire to get away, to be alone, to think over the revelation of the past half-hour.

  • No," said Anstice quickly, moved by a sudden desire to enlist this man's sympathy and possible help.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sudden desire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both instances; but indeed; fourteen feet; free school; indefinite quantity; living cells; post number; provide evidence; see any; sexual exploitation; she hurried; sudden change; sudden death; sudden halt; sudden rush; sudden start; sudden thought; sudden turn; suddenly appeared; suddenly came; suddenly felt; suddenly heard; suddenly occurred; suddenly said; suddenly stopped; while boiling