How to Use hope in a Sentence

hope

1 of 2 verb
  • Let's hope that the strike ends soon.
  • I hope I haven't bored you.
  • That's what she hoped would happen.
  • I hope you're feeling better soon.
  • No one knows yet if anyone survived the crash. At this point, we can only hope.
  • Everyone in your family is well, I hope.
  • But one hopes that the shame isn’t the sum of the story.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
  • Democrats hope to wrap up the inquiry by the end of the year.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2019
  • What are some of the things that give you hope these days?
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Browns feel the same way, and hope to get some good news soon.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
  • The whole point is to just keep the jokes and the set pieces coming, and hope for the best.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • SpaceX will hope to get lucky and hit a gap in the storms this evening.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
  • Green Bay must win out and hope for some help along the way.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The team and its fans can only hope that’s a good thing.
    Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The Tigers will need to win out and hope the Aggies slip up.
    al, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The Tigers hope to take advantage of his speed on the bases.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2022
  • But the Dolphins hope his talent can lead the team to new heights.
    Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Let’s hope it’s not something as dumb as the last livestream.
    Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2018
  • Then, head to the mountains, work a little, play a lot, and hope for snow.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2021
  • There is some progress — and hope — in the latest data.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2021
  • What gives you hope about the future of our planet and the climate?
    Time, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Her lawyers hope that her plea will make the court more lenient.
    New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • Still, some hope that the worst will soon be over on the inflation front.
    Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 1 June 2022
  • Teens, prepare for the worst and hope for the best when meeting your first scary doll.
    Vulture, 2 Jan. 2023
  • And for those who didn’t land tickets, there’s still hope.
    Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Fans can only hope McGregor will actually make the cage walk this time.
    Mark Puleo, New York Times, 17 May 2026
  • Now fans hope the team’s play on the field will be as good as this video.
    Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • City leaders hope the program helps rebuild connections in a time when many people barely know the neighbors living next door.
    Tori Mason, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • Scientists have long hoped photons could solve this problem.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • The team hopes to get Holmes back after the ex-reliever had gotten off to the best start of his career as a starter.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026

hope

2 of 2 noun
  • The goal raised the hopes of the team.
  • He told them the truth with the hope that they would understand.
  • The hope is that there will be a settlement soon.
  • The drug has brought hope to thousands of sufferers.
  • The lawyers do not want to raise false hopes of an early settlement.
  • When they started their life together, they were young and full of hope.
  • The latest reports hold out hope for a possible end to this crisis.
  • Rescuers have not yet abandoned hope that more survivors will be found.
  • We allowed ourselves to entertain hopes that the crisis would end soon.
  • He had little hope of attending college.
  • In them, there is some hope for the future of the chef.
    Alicia Kennedy, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2022
  • That means there's hope for the rest of us to be great, too.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The world’s fairest hope linked with man’s foulest crime.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
  • All of this work is built on the same thing, and that is hope.
    Maka Monture, Teen Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
  • The hope is to find light waves also caused by the event.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • The hope is that the work beckons more than one glance.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Amid the grim milestones, there is some hope in the fight against the virus.
    Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • That was the hope, but the men in suits signing the deals weren't ready to think about that.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 May 2018
  • There's still hope of a rebound in the second half of the year.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 14 July 2019
  • The original hope was to film the fourth and fifth movies back to back.
    Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Now there is hope, and that word isn’t even strong enough.
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2018
  • But the wave is coming, and your best hope is to get aboard and ride it to shore.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In his view, there's still hope that the movie will be approved.
    Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
  • My hope for you is that this Purim is your best one yet!
    Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But as the logic of the Cold War took hold, those hopes curdled.
    Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Hey, at least there's still hope for Japril to be endgame once more!
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That was scrapped, and the hope then was to work with two other countries.
    Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
  • So Snyder looked, and looked some more, and didn’t find hope.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
  • Discontent has been brewing for weeks, but this was the day that the majority of the fanbase lost hope in Nuno and his team.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • The hope is that the Grove complements the existing amenities.
    Jessica Riley, CBS News, 17 May 2026

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