How to Use desirous in a Sentence

desirous

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Nelson wasn’t the only singer to launch from its desirous refrain.
    — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For the bored, desirous quarantine viewer, the movie is simply a blank canvas.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 26 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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 Aries moon is making the evening desirous, ravenous, and rapturous.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2021
  • For people who work downtown, the most desirous high-end neighborhoods are in the Inner Loop.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dracula and his brides are not the only hungrily desirous characters on display.
    — Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • But the Chinese government seemed desirous of limiting the fallout.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Here is my coven of women authors and their pariah creation—sometimes literal monsters, sometimes the monster of the desirous self.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Almost immediately, the government didn’t seem all that desirous of playing the backstop roll.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Given the state of the Texans' rebuild, inquiring about Saints veterans is less desirous.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But that desirous result eludes screenwriters Coen and Tricia Cooke.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • These people purported, in Charlottesville, to be part of, desirous of a Christian nation.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • With more spending power, car buyers are veering towards spacious four-wheelers, leaving global giants more desirous of a slice of the world’s third-largest car market.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
  • 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 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
  • With the desirous Moon in your 9th House of Adventure, you may be tempted to go somewhere outside your usual stomping grounds.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024

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