How to Use optimistic in a Sentence

optimistic

adjective

• Eighty emails to find a new date would have been optimistic.
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
• In many ways, that optimistic stance was spot-on.
  — Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026
• Some of them are more … optimistic about their length.
  — Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026
• But even that may be optimistic.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
• This is an optimistic take, sure.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• Our crew was optimistic, and psyched.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• There are reasons to be optimistic, as many were a year ago.
  — Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
• Wall Street is optimistic on the stock.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
• Kapfer is optimistic based on the last few weekends of shows.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 4 Nov. 2019
• That’s the optimistic end of what the Bears bring back off the edge.
  — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Options traders have been very optimistic over the past two weeks.
  — Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Yet both of us knew that such optimistic plans had a way of not working out.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• The state of the world has been bleak, but his set had an optimistic outlook.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2026
• The optimistic take is not that this heals itself.
  — Josh Tanenbaum, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
• Of course, both the optimistic and pessimistic case could turn out to be true.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• Even in the most optimistic scenario, that process would take years.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 31 Mar. 2026
• Over the decades, his movies seemed to become more optimistic.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• So grateful for what has past [sic], so optimistic for what’s to come.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 May 2024
• But this turned out to be overly optimistic.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2026
• Others were more optimistic about the day’s task.
  — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
• Others were more optimistic about the day’s task.
  — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
• That scenario may be far too optimistic.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
• Machado, for her part, struck an optimistic tone.
  — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
• Hiles is optimistic and sees a full recovery a few years down the road.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 11 July 2018
• Many say even trying to play in the spring is being too optimistic.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
• Daniels is optimistic his recent string of injuries is a thing of the past.
  — Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2020
• The way forward My take is a bit more optimistic.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
• But Lazar and Fuhrman were optimistic about school — to a point.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Yet people were optimistic and had good reason to be so.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
• In the hands of a more optimistic filmmaker, maybe that would be the move.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026