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Example sentences for: hoping

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When I first moved from theoretical physics to business, I dutifully read the business-as-war books, hoping to gain some insights.
We seek regularities in the long movements of history, trying to find our place in a bigger picture than the evening news and hoping to see what is coming next.
I went into McDonald's, hoping to find solace in an order of Super-Size Fries.
But it's the WP 's inside story that rolls out a professor from some place called Carleton College to best summarize the moment: "He came in hoping to be Franklin Roosevelt, and ended up being Dwight Eisenhower."
The tribe had donated more than $100,000 to the Democratic Party, hoping, according to testimony, that the administration would intervene on its behalf in a dispute over drilling rights on tribal land.