How to Use wishful in a Sentence

wishful

adjective

• No lines for me and lots of people with wishful looks on their faces.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
• All hail the new monarch of the wishful thinkers, her majesty Kelly Clarkson!
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 May 2022
• The playoffs are no longer a wishful dream for Devin Booker.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2021
• But even half a million more acre-feet of water seems wishful.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• But that may be little more than wishful thinking on Fox's part.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• There was a thick stack of cue cards for every name — some confirmed to stop and speak to Ms. Cox on the carpet, others more wishful.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• This was more than wishful thinking and graveyard whistling.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Everywhere, or HOPE for short — an even more wishful ring.
  — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2017
• Much of that was sparked by the pandemic, which upended the housing market and caused a wave of wishful scrolling.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Only a true wishful thinker could be confident of that.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 13 June 2022
• So if everything feels like some kind of wishful-thinking fairy tale, think again.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
• This is wishful fantasy, as many of the film's skeptics have noted.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2017
• Instead of the wishful-thinking climactic chorus at the end, Leah wakes from her dream.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• This adds a new dimension to the wishful-thinking phase of our current crisis.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 13 June 2022
• People spend years fighting to maintain a wishful line in the sand, yet a few extra feet of water here or there is hardly a shrug for the ocean.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• The new television series, Harlem is at the wishful front of a resurgence in Black television.
  — Malik Peay, Essence, 4 Feb. 2022
• But Out There Screaming embraces the wishful mood that is driving this talk of a new era, and its stories posit what Black horror is and could be.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
• Trumpism may never have had a chance to begin with, but to use this election as the proof seems like wishful argument.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 13 Dec. 2017
• The pandemic, of course, is where Trump’s willful and wishful ignorance turned the most deadly.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
• So is the climax, which goes whole hog with wishful dramatic thinking.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• Time management might seem like a wishful afterthought when so many things get thrown your way.
  — Yec, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The fall and Karol G trended on social media on Saturday as fans sent support and wishful thoughts her way.
  — al, 27 Nov. 2021
• In the spring and fall, wishful campers have to register with a ranger starting at 8:30 a.m., but in the winter, Camp 4 is run on a self-registration system.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2020
• In fact, more wishful trainers dot your journey than in previous games.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018
• Her music gets her there too; the song ends on a wishful note — with banger percussion — about togetherness.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2022
• But the comparison of Chandler and Curry to Pippen and Grant was wishful thinking at best.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• Some of your plans could prove a bit wishful and unworkable, so reach out to friends and co-workers for their realistic input.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 1 July 2019
• In fact, these testers were so excited about this chair that there were no mentions of improvements or wishful features.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• In places where wolves and mountain lions have died out, rumors often spread of sightings, like the stories of the Loch Ness monster, more wishful than frightened.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2022
• The facts of this case stand in stark contrast to the government’s wishful and illusory arguments.
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024