Example sentences for: hoped

How can you use “hoped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Another oldtimer, Henry Hawkins of Glocester likewise speaks of swaling birches, adding that it did not always work out as one hoped it would: sometimes the 15-20-foot gray birch would tip part way down only to falter, leaving the climber dangling halfway, a predicament, indeed.

  • I suppose I hoped that the movie--which opened on Christmas Day in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for the Academy Awards and has been opening across the country over the last few weeks--would just go away.

  • The deluge of cash angered President Teddy Roosevelt, who had hoped the break-up would bring the monopolists only pain.

  • But in this case, at least, that discussion seems not to have provided the dialectical pathway toward ultimate and inevitable truth that we had hoped for.

  • When Malcolm, rejoicing over a plane crash that killed 120 white Atlantans, chalked the disaster up to "our God" and hoped that "every day another plane falls out of the sky," King could only reply, feebly, "I would certainly disagree with him."


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