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Example sentences for: hoped

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Investigators evidently hoped that they would be recognized, giving the police a lead."
New York recently featured this literary murder mystery as a case study in "breakthrough" marketing--its publisher, Viking, hoped to position it as a middlebrow hit, like Annie Proulx's The Shipping News . Reviewers aren't cooperating.
Somewhat dubious “talent schools” sprang up, catering to small-town girls who hoped to emulate film stars such as Mary Pickford.
While on a second expedition to colonize Florida, in 1521, Ponce de León was critically wounded during an attack by Indians; the explorer hoped to return Puerto Rico but lost his fight for life on the way back, in Havana, Cuba.
Indeed, he hoped to wire Lewinsky and thereby catch Jordan--and perhaps even Clinton--asking her to lie.