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Example sentences for: hoping

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

Yet even as so many HMOs pull out of Medicare, there are concurrently 25 HMOs hoping to expand their Medicare involvement and still more HMOs with applications pending.
I'm hoping he'll cover his eyes."
He's hoping to have mistletoe by Christmas, and if the spring orchids don't fizzle, Sandra can use them in her nuptial ceremony.
We were hoping that patterns in the phylogeny of plasmid-borne arsC genes might indicate whether HGT of arsC genes has occurred (or is still occurring) in recent times.
Spanish has only one word for hope (esperar) but esperar also means ` wait ' and ` expect ,' and if the context is not clear the Spanish speaker will not know whether you are waiting for a bus, or expecting one, or simply hoping that one will come along eventually.