And,if you wish someone good night, you might say, "sleep tight -- don't let the bed bugs bite."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I wish schools should change their start time to eight-thirty or nine a.m.

VOA: special.2010.10.14

But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

In Brazil,many people flock to Copacabana beach to ask the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea, Iemanja,a wish in exchange for a gift.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Fair-goers can take part in ritual cleanings and make a wish for the New Year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

As August 1969 fades farther into the past, the Woodstock Festival continues to enjoy a near-mythic status, both for those who were there and for the millions who wish they'd been there.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

"We also wish to reiterate the calls by the African Union, SADC,COMESA , the non-aligned movement and China to those who have imposed illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe, to leave them without further delay,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.08