How to Use wish fulfillment in a Sentence

wish fulfillment

noun
  • The book is a kind of wish fulfillment.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 24 Feb. 2026
  • So there was a bit of wish fulfillment to the dream, at least at the start.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In this wish fulfillment dream, much more than cash is received.
    — Lauren Lawrence, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Some cams serve as wish fulfillment for those who want to hit the trails but are unable to.
    — Allie Volpe, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2020
  • That is a bit wish fulfillment to me, in the fan fiction of my girlhood.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 July 2024
  • And that would be wish fulfillment for her and for the audience.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2018
  • There’s probably a bit of wish fulfillment in the idea of this show.
    — EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • There’s probably a bit of wish fulfillment in the idea of this show.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There’s probably a bit of wish fulfillment in the idea of this show.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That might mean the wish fulfillment of a child's dream to be an astronaut.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
  • This is also a film floating along on teen-movie archetypes and wish fulfillment.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • That’s the kind of wish fulfillment others can barely dream of.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no doubt that the movie will act as wish fulfillment for kids – who wouldn’t want to run amuck and get away with it?
    — Kyle Lamar Rice, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But throughout all the wish fulfillment, a faint siren keeps ringing.
    — Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 12 May 2026
  • To get the wish fulfillment of the weirdos taking vengeance on all of those who were causing them so much pain?
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Is this just wish fulfillment for horny old widowers?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The result of his little project is some awesome wish fulfillment though.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2017
  • For some people, that’s the kind of wish fulfillment that puts superheroes to shame.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Yeah, but working it out and wish fulfillment are two different things.
    — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The film is glorious wish fulfillment, the kind of movie best served with a tub of your favorite ice cream.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • When wish fulfillment goes beyond all limits.
    — Laura Scafati, Vanity Fair, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But even the best of these are advertisements that create a false sense of fan wish fulfillment.
    — Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
  • There was a little bit of a wish fulfillment with the character who came around at the end and embraced medicine.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The scene, a bungled reflection on wish fulfillment, brought the pop show to a screeching halt.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Sometimes, though, time travel is less wish fulfillment than nightmare.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But wish fulfillment was always just a means to get audiences in the theater and send them home happy.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
  • His account of his adventures in the West is a classic case of wish fulfillment.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 15 May 2020
  • And there is only one brief moment where the show plays out a wish fulfillment moment for Dexter.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The consequence of wish fulfillment is a universal theme of stories from around the world.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the storytelling felt almost like wish fulfillment for us as dark-skinned Black women.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021

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