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How to use wishfully in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wishfully? Here are some examples.

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They may be excusable, but they are out of touch or misled or thinking wishfully.
Many others, whether or not wishfully, do. The Americans and the Germans are now desperately trying to play down the incident.
The normalisation of relations between Washington and Tehran that some observers wishfully remark does not seem to be on the agenda.
Josie agreed, gazing wishfully at them with her head cocked to the side.
Subjunctively comparing magic to eating, Leontes wishfully demystifies the magic he apprehends.
Age of Conan's day of release was wishfully longed for by many fans.
One should not interpret wishfully any statement coming out of Kosovo.
Some wishfully liken the tanzim to America's Congress, hoping that it could yet provide an institutional umbrella for a closer confederation of Arab states. But the global Brotherhood wields little real authority.
Yet more looked wishfully to that ultimate idea, and many more determined that the immediate aim must be to build a much stronger Quebec bastion within the Anglo-dominated federal union.
Examples from Classical Literature
Why, Deacon Downs himself can drink three cups of a morning, an' then look around sort of wishfully for another.
There she stood, wiping the tears from her eyes, looking on wishfully, while her husband did not even know that she was there.
Manabozho looked on wishfully to see them eat till they were fully satisfied, and they left him nothing but the bare bones.
The peach looked so tempting that Nannie looked at it wishfully.
The pretty boy stood there indeed, looking in modestly and wishfully.
There was a pathos in Dan's looking wishfully back on some things most of us would have been glad to have forgotten.
They are thinking wishfully and under the unquestionable presumption that IS is nothing but a Western puppet.
When you look for evidence, it can prepare you to look for the unexpected but can also make you think wishfully.
Many a time he had looked over the steamer's side during that long, lonely voyage and gazed almost wishfully into the sea, in whose embrace was rest.
I'm wishfully eyeing up the properties and picture myself living here.
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