How to Use wish fulfillment in a Sentence

wish fulfillment

noun

• So there was a bit of wish fulfillment to the dream, at least at the start.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And that would be wish fulfillment for her and for the audience.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2018
• That might mean the wish fulfillment of a child's dream to be an astronaut.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
• 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
• In this wish fulfillment dream, much more than cash is received.
  — Lauren Lawrence, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
• The Prom might work as an exercise in wish fulfillment.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2021
• His account of his adventures in the West is a classic case of wish fulfillment.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 15 May 2020
• But even the best of these are advertisements that create a false sense of fan wish fulfillment.
  — Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
• The consequence of wish fulfillment is a universal theme of stories from around the world.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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 result of his little project is some awesome wish fulfillment though.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2017
• Some of the storytelling felt almost like wish fulfillment for us as dark-skinned Black women.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• If this sounds like Trumpian wish fulfillment, fair enough, but that’s it for the political backdrop.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• Justin Timberlake as a hot, retro lifeguard? Woody Allen is here for such wish fulfillment.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
• 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 scene could be straight out of a Levy film, brimming with recurring themes in his work—role reversal, the wisdom of children and wish fulfillment.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• For most of the show, Sugar comes off as unconvincing wish fulfillment.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• The reversals of fortune feel like easy wish fulfillment.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2019
• That passage was a bit of wish fulfillment for Lee, who describes himself as a terrible karaoke singer.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2021
• With an assist from the djinn and his knowledge of obscure folklore, the scholar speaks on wish fulfillment, aging and desire.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• That speech is pure wish fulfillment — imagine if a Chicago mayor, or any mayor, said this!
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2021
• When her conditions start to improve, the show takes on elements of wish fulfillment.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Upbeat planetary connections near the 12th through the 15th, though, indicate that some kind of wish fulfillment is now in store for you.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2022
• Freud was wrong in thinking that dreams are a wish fulfillment and are designed to conceal their true significance from the dreamer.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Irby is inserting a new layer of the narrative that is in some places wish fulfillment.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
• The second element of the Western response that risks making peace even harder to achieve is wish fulfillment.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
• Which brings us to one last thought: The replacement of Frann with Pleshette—if only for a few surreal minutes—represented a kind of wish fulfillment, maybe even a sign of regret.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024