"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had always loved stories; but since the trip to Dira, he had a consuming desire to know about the past.
- As a group, their consuming desires are remolding the character of Main Street.
- I was certain that his thwarted amb his consuming desire to restore the Skill to use.
- He had a consuming desire to abuse her mind with ugly pictures, to humiliate her.
- That's the consuming desire - to make the living afraid of them.
- It is a strange sensation, but many sense it from time to time: a consuming desire to part with money.
- Frankenstein's consuming desire is to create human life through various electrical devices which he has perfected.
- The prosecution said she was driven by a "consuming desire," but the defense said the case was a frame-up.
- Getting back and winning it all is one of his consuming desires.
- Who was dizzied by wealth and a consuming desire to fulfil his self-ordained destiny?
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