How to Use make a wish in a Sentence

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  • But Alexis wasn't there to blow out her candles and make a wish.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This Moon will also impact your hopes and dreams for the best, so go ahead and make a wish.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Whoever ends up with the biggest piece gets to make a wish!
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Driving into a tunnel, both of them hold their breath and make a wish.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In the absence of a cake, her parents stuck a candle in a mandarin orange and told her to make a wish.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • As the candles are blown out, make a wish that someone bakes one of these easy cakes when your birthday comes around.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Your one last chance to make a wish upon a shooting star in 2022 is approaching!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Out came a cake poked with flickering candles for Versace to make a wish on.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 3 May 2022
  • It's been more than four decades since Vincent Simmons has had a birthday cake -- candles to blow out and make a wish.
    — CBS News, 25 May 2022
  • Visitors often leave a token on her grave to make a wish.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
  • Nisi De Swaan stopped halfway through her run Tuesday afternoon to make a wish.
    — Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Some were devotees coming to make a wish deep within the temples’ inner sanctums.
    — Brandon Presser, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
  • An office worker watches silently as her idea for a Christmas sales initiative is stolen and then gets a visit from Santa Claus, who asks her to make a wish.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Merchán tells us to make a wish before calling out to the solstices and directional winds, blessing families and nations near and far, and ending the ceremony with the mournful wail of a conch shell.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The Etruscans would then carry the furcula around and stroke it—similar to how Aladdin rubs his lamp to make a wish with the genie in the Disney movie—believing this habit would provide good fortune or help make wishes come true.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Visited Reese for her make a wish, family time and birthdays ❤️ happy holidays!!
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Their conversation, in a hotel room in Istanbul where the scholar of mythology attends a conference, leads her to make a wish that surprises them both.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022
  • The Ursids commenced on Dec. 17 and will remain active until Dec. 26, giving star gazers several opportunities to spot a shooting star — and make a wish, of course!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Defectors who’ve attended their concerts, where audiences are asked to close their eyes and make a wish, have written prayers for reunification.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023

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