How to Use optimist in a Sentence

optimist

noun
  • At the start of 2018 the optimists had the better case.
    The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • To have the show revolve around an optimist is in some ways a risk.
    Joshua Kissi, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But for the optimists out there, there is a little hope.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2017
  • An optimist would say that the Warriors are due to hit one — right?
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The optimist in me, though, is hopeful this will change soon.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Ever the optimist, Jenn is looking on the bright side of things.
    Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • That’s the optimist in him, the part of him that believes things are going to get better.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2018
  • That's Todd, the eternal optimist and one resilient son of a gun.
    Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • My inner optimist rebels against that, but the news backs him up.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Left behind was the body of Ivan, the cheerful optimist.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • What the optimists and pessimists agree on is that the business model has to change.
    Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
  • This is a slow rebuild that’s just left the starting gate, and even that is the optimist’s viewpoint.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • But that’s like the joke about the optimist who’s fallen out of a 100-story building.
    William Poundstone, Vox, 5 July 2019
  • But a number of optimists see virtue in that speed to market.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 May 2025
  • An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
    Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
  • An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2023
  • An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in.
    Annie Lane, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Yet even a barge optimist like Grenville concedes weather can get in the way.
    Scott Canon, kansascity, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Solomon the optimist sees these goals as attainable — with lots of hard work.
    Tom Ferrick, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Alien made Stanley Kubrick look like an optimist, or at least a neat freak.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Even an optimist like Vitale wasn’t quite ready to go there.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The optimist would tell you Green Bay simply knows how to win close games under LaFleur.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The optimists, which include Mr. Bove, hope that the club can find a happy medium — and a way to succeed.
    Claire Fahy, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And an optimist would point out the Lakers won 12 of 14 after the loss to the Spurs and then won eight-straight after losing to the Hornets.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Snowmobiles are sitting on green grass in front of the homes of optimists.
    John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
  • In the world of climate discourse, Gates is what’s known as a techno-optimist.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Pandemic or not, Philip Galanes is in the end an optimist.
    CBS News, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Springsteen is an optimist, but he's not given up the good fight.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Very little that’s good ever happens without an optimist at the helm.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
  • The optimist will see a group that went from the fringes of the playoff discussion to the top of the Eastern Conference, primarily on the backs of players whose best hockey would seem to be in front of them.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 17 May 2025

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