How to Use only wish/want/hope in a Sentence

only wish/want/hope

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• With no way to call for help, his only hope was our dog, Phoebe.
  — Claire Cameron, Outside Online, 3 Feb. 2025
• My only hope is that this movie doesn’t ruin the album for me.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
• The only hope is to have a home with a few animals in some place not worth a bomb.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
• Now, the team can only hope the forecast for the rest of their season can clear up.
  — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• With the roads closed, this was their only hope of seeing what remained of their house.
  — Jordan Greene, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• But now the Memphis transfer can only hope to make the most of it.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• These are the sort of costly errors a football club only want to make once.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
• The space and defense sectors can only hope the two men show some restraint now.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 June 2025
• Hybrid jobs are all the rage now, but too many people only want remote work.
  — Robin Ryan, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
• Or rather producers only want girls as young as their daughters to be in their shows.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
• These migrants’ only hope for a second chance is a faulty smartphone app.
  — Lillian Perlmutter, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• That photo sparked an idea for a story of four best friends who only want to have a good time all the time.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• Mom says now his children only want to come over on the weekends after their dad gets home.
  — Devonne Goode, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025
• But if you aren't allowed to talk about solutions, the only hope is to fight back.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
• Everybody in the league knows the team has no future and its only hope is lottery luck.
  — Darnell Mayberry, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
• So the only hope is that kind Russia will warn about launches in advance.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• Some of the women searching the prisons and morgues could only hope for this kind of closure.
  — Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024
• The people who run Fox News — and its rivals — can only hope.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
• Some people have already buried their children, and their only wish is to stay close so they can be buried next to them.
  — Lynsey Addario Megan Specia, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
• Now his only wish is to leave the state prison yards he’s known for most of his adult life and go behind federal bars.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
• The only hope is young Alam, Mallikajaan’s youngest daughter.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• Their only hope for surviving the night is to overturn the transports and use them as shelter.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
• So the only hope Keffe would have of ever seeing the light of day again is to take a deal with a lesser charge.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
• The men could only hope to emulate the drama of the perfect women’s matchup.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
• Most American laborers only want to work on the farm part-time — if at all.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
• Like Rachel herself, we members of that audience can only hope to know so much about that.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
• The sensation of knowing another swarm of drones is on its way, the only hope that each one can be shot from the sky.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• Our only hope against this evil is the activist outrage of these parents groups and, of course, the grace of almighty God.
  — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2024
• The princess doesn’t only want a man’s riches but the whole package – a husband with money that will romance her.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
• With those results, the only hope of an outsider reaching the latter stages was based on the draw, rather than a giant-killer.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 29 July 2025