"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desire sustantivo

sustantivo + desire
Kolokacji: 3
heart desire • Streetcar Desire • consumer desire
desire + verbo
Kolokacji: 42
desire leads • desire makes • desire comes • desire grows • desire causes • ...
verbo + desire
Kolokacji: 68
name Desire • reflect one's desire • satisfy one's desire • understand one's desire • express a desire • state one's desire • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(7) tear, increase
Kolokacji: 2
(8) indicate, signal, reveal
Kolokacji: 3
(11) imbue, explore
Kolokacji: 2
  • Mr. North's close friends go beyond saying he is simply "imbued" with a desire to work with youth as a result of his Washington experience.
  • On the contrary, he was imbued with a simple desire to have his aircrews like and respect him with the same intense feeling that he had for them.
  • The worst had been those hard-shelled flying black beetles which seemed to be imbued with a desire to attack anybody or anything that moved, homing in like miniature spitfires.
  • All of which had happened to me through a series of innocent misunderstandings, but which nonetheless imbued me with a pretty strong desire to take my leave of Delhi until everyone calmed down and was willing to listen to reason.
  • IMBUED with a desire "to get involved," Mr. Thompson said, he won a nonpartisan election for mayor in April 2000 and began to tackle a $31 million debt and some bureaucratic flabbiness.
  • They are full of faults, such as greediness and vanity, and Mrs. Mason, through stories, real-world demonstrations, and her own example, cures the girls of most of their moral failings and imbues them with a desire to be virtuous.
  • I summoned my courage and called out, "Having you hang around just outside the perimeter doesn't exactly imbue me with a great desire to go exploring!"
  • Imbued with a desire to rule Middledale, stirred by envy of the Denwood family, Albot had planned a cunning campaign to reach his objective.
  • Never were two boys more elated, more enthusiastic, more imbued with a desire to shout and dance; but they did nothing of the sort.
  • Imbued with this thought as well as a desire to be near his father and learn more of what the whites intended for Geronimo, the youth made his lonely way toward San Carlos.
2. explore desire = zgłęb ochotę explore desire
(12) balance, embody
Kolokacji: 2
(13) give, grant, feed, fuel, leave
Kolokacji: 5
adjetivo + desire
Kolokacji: 168
strong desire • sexual desire • great desire • human desire • overwhelming desire • intense desire • real desire • personal desire • ...
preposición + desire
Kolokacji: 23
of desire • to one's desire • in one's desire • for one's desire • about one's desire • ...

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