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Example sentences for: hopefully
How can you use “hopefully” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
--Hopefully Helpfully,
The results presented herein can be used to guide these new computational studies, which will lead to the design of potential inhibitors and hopefully a way to combat penicillin resistance in bacteria.
Hopefully, people will take that lesson to heart.
--Helpfully Hopeful or Hopefully Helpful
Fred Shapiro is perhaps the most skilled researcher in this area, and he's been able to find incredibly early examples of words and phrases: "politically correct" from the 18 th century, or "hopefully" in its disputed sense--"it is to be hoped"--from numerous very formal sources in the 1930s through the 1950s, showing that the usage didn't simply pop up ex nihilo in the 1960s.
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