How to Use sanguine in a Sentence

sanguine

adjective

• He is sanguine about the company's future.
• She has a sanguine disposition.
• Others are less sanguine about the scale of the task ahead.
  — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• The trustees chose to take a sanguine approach to the future.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• The mood is more sanguine in certain corners of the market.
  — Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Bloomberg.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The actors and writers on the picket line are less sanguine.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• Goodman's critics from both the right and the left aren't as sanguine.
  — Neri Zilber, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• And some are less sanguine about just throwing open the schoolhouse gates.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
• None of which meant that Rogen was sanguine about the state of the industry.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• Many of those who make their living on the water are fairly sanguine about it.
  — Arthur Brice, CNN, 24 May 2021
• Investors had been too sanguine on the risk for the coronavirus to dent global growth.
  — Christine Romans, CNN, 25 Feb. 2020
• But the reality on the ground was clearly at odds with this sanguine view.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Over the past week, the markets had been remarkably sanguine.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
• Now, some suspect investors are too sanguine about the months ahead.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2023
• But there are still risks to a sanguine approach to current price movements.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• When asked about the risks of this very hands-on form of science, Stern is sanguine.
  — Amy Thompson, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• The state is less sanguine about the prospects of the property and gives $4 million for it.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Maybe there are times when being less sanguine would be better.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• Thompson, for one, seems rather sanguine about the whole matter.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• These sensible, sanguine views may not be enough to hold off the panic.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• But not everyone is so sanguine about the business of birthing on camera.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Three days before his first race, Stolz was sanguine about it all.
  — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• And before the games were played, that’s all anyone had to work with — sanguine fantasies.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2018
• Law students are far less sanguine about that choice of career today.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
• But many stories the Census tells are anything but sanguine.
  — Jennifer Mendelsohn, Time, 13 Mar. 2020
• But some economists are not as sanguine about a recovery this time around.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• But outside of tech, many business leaders have remained more sanguine about what the next year may bring.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
• Lex points out that shareholders so far have remained sanguine.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Van, the plaintiff-candidate, is sanguine about his odds.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• Young people are much less sanguine about their northern neighbor than Moon is.
  — George Will, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024