How to Use hope in a Sentence
- 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.
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But one hopes that the shame isn’t the sum of the story.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
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Democrats hope to wrap up the inquiry by the end of the year.
—Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2019
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What are some of the things that give you hope these days?
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
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The Browns feel the same way, and hope to get some good news soon.
—Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 3 June 2019
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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
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SpaceX will hope to get lucky and hit a gap in the storms this evening.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
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Green Bay must win out and hope for some help along the way.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
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The team and its fans can only hope that’s a good thing.
—Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Feb. 2022
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The Tigers will need to win out and hope the Aggies slip up.
—al, 12 Nov. 2021
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The Tigers hope to take advantage of his speed on the bases.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2022
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But the Dolphins hope his talent can lead the team to new heights.
—Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2020
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Let’s hope it’s not something as dumb as the last livestream.
—Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2018
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Then, head to the mountains, work a little, play a lot, and hope for snow.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2021
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There is some progress — and hope — in the latest data.
—Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2021
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What gives you hope about the future of our planet and the climate?
—Time, 27 Oct. 2022
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Her lawyers hope that her plea will make the court more lenient.
—New York Times, 27 July 2022
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Still, some hope that the worst will soon be over on the inflation front.
—Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 1 June 2022
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Teens, prepare for the worst and hope for the best when meeting your first scary doll.
—Vulture, 2 Jan. 2023
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And for those who didn’t land tickets, there’s still hope.
—Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
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Sam Roush is the latest Stanford tight end hoping to make his mark on the NFL.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
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The Jaguars also hope to run the ball better next season.
—Mark Long, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
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After all, the Ducks hadn’t given their fans much reason to hope over the past several years.
—Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
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From hopeless to hope, that quickly.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
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The church hopes to have permits by mid-June and anticipates a total build time of nine to 12 months.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
- 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.
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In them, there is some hope for the future of the chef.
—Alicia Kennedy, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2022
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That means there's hope for the rest of us to be great, too.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2022
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The world’s fairest hope linked with man’s foulest crime.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
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All of this work is built on the same thing, and that is hope.
—Maka Monture, Teen Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
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The hope is to find light waves also caused by the event.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
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The hope is that the work beckons more than one glance.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
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Amid the grim milestones, there is some hope in the fight against the virus.
—Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2020
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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
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There's still hope of a rebound in the second half of the year.
—Julia Horowitz, CNN, 14 July 2019
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The original hope was to film the fourth and fifth movies back to back.
—Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2023
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Now there is hope, and that word isn’t even strong enough.
—Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2018
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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
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In his view, there's still hope that the movie will be approved.
—Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
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My hope for you is that this Purim is your best one yet!
—Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 24 Feb. 2023
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But as the logic of the Cold War took hold, those hopes curdled.
—Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
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Hey, at least there's still hope for Japril to be endgame once more!
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
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That was scrapped, and the hope then was to work with two other countries.
—Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
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So Snyder looked, and looked some more, and didn’t find hope.
—Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
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The White House is clinging to the hope that a pause in the fighting can be won before too long.
—Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
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My hopes and dreams are just to go into it and tear it to shreds.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2026
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