How to Use hopefully in a Sentence

hopefully

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  • They gazed up at us hopefully.
  • Hopefully, things will get better soon.
  • So hopefully being healthy a little bit more than last year.
    Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2023
  • So hopefully San Diegans will check out the Desmond and spread the word.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But hopefully, blood proves to be thicker than water in this series based on a real story.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
  • And maybe this will be a lesson for other people, hopefully, because people are talking about it.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The school will have counselors on campus to support students and staff as soon as the school reopens which will hopefully be tomorrow.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Hopefully, electing to not put a toxin in my body will reduce my stress overall and, hopefully, reduce my wrinkles.
    Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The troubled, kooky characters that people the screens are not examples to emulate but to learn from and try to understand and hopefully, perhaps, contrive help for.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
  • It's been fun getting to incorporate that and creating something hopefully different in horror.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
  • On premium denim: Premium denim is denim that is not made like fast fashion, and that hopefully is made with responsibility in mind.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The designer’s moleskin jeans, which feature his signature brass buttons, are a perennial in his collection—and will hopefully be a perennial in your winter wardrobe.
    Barry Samaha, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This webcam offers an f/1.7 aperture that should allow for natural-looking bokeh and hopefully solid low-light performance, too.
    Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Instead, companies should supplement the benefit with tactics and programs that address employee mental health needs and hopefully prevent them.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Getting celebrity support for their effort will hopefully energize the youth of Iran, who Najafi says have felt both forgotten and misunderstood for many years.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
  • And hopefully that adds to the dread of, 'Is this going to be the big death of this movie?
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • So that was my goal, just to have fun, and hopefully win some games.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
  • For their sake, the ad hopefully won’t be a repeat of the 2024 Grammys.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t the end for Levis, and hopefully his wait will end on Friday.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Just trying to train smart, ease back in, and be ready for something, hopefully, by the end of the year.
    Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The house, which needs the most work, will hopefully be completed in the summer.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
  • He’s listed as day-to-day, so hopefully this doesn’t turn out to be long-term.
    Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2023
  • So, mom and dad, hopefully, fingers crossed, can be home in April, May.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • All of that income from last year hopefully made for a sweet start to 2023 for these A-listers.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Here’s what to watch out for, from scary and soapy to hopefully funny, with trips to both Marvel and DC worlds.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Then one day, hopefully, the doctors or the scientists can come up with a cure.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • For a lot of people, the onset of winter means one thing: powder, and hopefully lots of it.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Aulakh said that hopefully, the robots will also affect the taste of the restaurant's food - for the better.
    Joy Benedict, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • This song turns up the heat, and hopefully is just the first of more collaborations to come from these two.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
  • That means the carrier would start with two to three flights a week and then hopefully ramp up, said the ambassador.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024

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