wish for's Usage Examples:

To cross one's fingers is a hand gesture commonly used to wish for luck.

acknowledged by the Papua New Guinea Constitution, which expresses the wish for "traditional villages and communities to remain as viable units of Papua.

They symbolize the household's wish for an abundance of nature and a bountiful harvest for the upcoming year.

Ar Braz – is a slow-moving ballad, in which the singers express their wish for children to be born "With eyes full of laughter in the rain" and "From.

Like kazunoko below, it symbolizes a wish for children in the New Year.

provide a lens through which Mulvey was able to interpret the "primordial wish for pleasurable looking" satisfied through the cinematic experience.

a comedy about a man who finds a genie and struggles to decide what to wish for, pondering the question through a series of hypothetical dream sequences.

The tiger pattern was embroidered on the surface as reflecting parents' wish for their children to grow brave.

been honored by my country, on the other it could not prevent an earnest wish for that retirement from which no private consideration should ever have torn.

It is a common expression used in theto wish for God's protection of something or someone from the evil eye.

Synonyms:

trust; desire; want; hope;

Antonyms:

whisper; shout; close up; specify; mitigated;