How to Use make a wish in a Sentence

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  • Feel free to toss in a few coins and make a wish.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
  • When 1111 comes on the clock, people make a wish.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But Alexis wasn't there to blow out her candles and make a wish.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Driving into a tunnel, both of them hold their breath and make a wish.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Out came a cake poked with flickering candles for Versace to make a wish on.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 3 May 2022
  • 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
  • By the new moon in your sign, you’re presented with a clean slate, compliments of the cosmos, so make a wish.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Some were devotees coming to make a wish deep within the temples’ inner sanctums.
    Brandon Presser, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Your one last chance to make a wish upon a shooting star in 2022 is approaching!
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Nisi De Swaan stopped halfway through her run Tuesday afternoon to make a wish.
    Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Your massage therapist invites you to light a candle and make a wish before heading to your treatment.
    Paula Conway, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • During their trip, Emilia spotted Aladdin’s lamp and instantly went over to make a wish.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Gass was asked to make a wish on stage in Australia where the band was performing on his 64th birthday Sunday.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
  • Kelly Clarkson can make a wish, take a chance and make a change, but one of her most beloved hits will still be her musical director’s least favorite.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2025
  • During the show in Sydney, which fell on Gass’ birthday, Black asked him to make a wish as he was presented with a cake.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Take advantage of these dark skies, soak in the Northern Lights, study constellations, and make a wish on a falling star.
    Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • During the show, which fell on Gass’ birthday, group member Jack Black asked him to make a wish as he was presented with a cake.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 July 2024
  • Outside, women sell nuts, candies, and water for worshippers who come to spend the entire afternoon or simply a few minutes to make a wish.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • When talent is scarce and jobs are widely available, employees can make a wish list while organizations compete for the best candidate with the most appealing perks.
    Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Green Day are about to make a wish — or hundreds of wishes — come true thanks to their latest collaboration with Wheels For Wishes.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Motorists across Western Australia were granted the opportunity to make a wish when a shooting star briefly illuminated the sky.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • The incident occurred when Gass was asked to make a wish after a robot in a party hat carried a birthday cake on stage, presenting it to Gass for his 64th birthday.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
  • And even the anti-penny comedian John Oliver can’t deny the sentimental value of chucking a penny into a fountain to make a wish or spitefully paying someone in a stash of one-cent coins.
    Chad De Guzman, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025

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