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Example sentences for: hoping

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The emperors distributed their largess to too many warlords, hoping to pacify them.
But I looked all through Africana , hoping vainly they'd spelled his name "MacPherson" or that there was a list of black Pulitzer Prize winners.
All of our Six summer camping sessions are booked to capacity (and, truth be told, with maybe one our two extra returning campers squeezed in) and we have a waiting list of 60 children who are hoping to come if a spot should open.
But Turkey had taken a great, stumbling stride towards 'modernity,' towards the unprotected free-market economy which the European Union enforces on nations hoping to join it."
Peter's going to have to do a double-take when I get there, but I'm hoping to squeak by," he reportedly said.