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Example sentences for "wish they"

  • I do wish they'd move back," Fanny said, almost tearfully.

  • Oh, I wish they'd call it something else!

  • I wish they were a bit older," sighed the mother, at the door of their room.

  • I wish they'd open the door," whispered Marcella.

  • But--don't you think all the time he was just getting his education?

  • And, reading her legends and romances, it was natural that Marcella should live them and dress them.

  • I wish they wouldn't, I am sure," said Ellen.

  • I wish they were," said John, sighing and smiling; "but my last words had nothing to do with my simile as you call it.

  • If peoples interrumpt, I wish they'd finish their interrumpting, and not stop in the middle.

  • Illustration: "If peoples interrumpt, I wish they'd finish their interrumpting, and not stop in the middle.

  • I wish they'd all go; they might as well!

  • I wish they wouldn't refer to me that way," he thought.

  • I wish they'd let us have a chance at the horses," remarked Dick, to Paul, when they were studying in their room one evening.

  • I wish they'd hurry up and have that sham battle," remarked Paul to Dick one night.

  • I wish they'd call it Nebuchadnezzar, Or thrown it in the Thames and drown'd it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wish they" 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:
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