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Example sentences for: hoping

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As a countermeasure to all the taxes, many drivers whose tags expired after the November election are playing cat and mouse with the cops, hoping to postpone the purchase of new tags until January, when they can pay the $30 fee.
When I first moved from theoretical physics to business, I dutifully read the business-as-war books, hoping to gain some insights.
And we have to nurse the supply of old Murder, She Wrote s, rationing ourselves to not more than one viewing a week, hoping to preserve the fascination until the need for such entertainment has passed.
I began hoping to do something with either the war or the president's contempt citation, and eager to use "I give the headline; you give the lead," or "I give the answer; you give the question," or "I give the caption; you describe the photo," three nice forms we've not used lately.
St. Augustine (354-430) was among the first to study the ethics of war, hoping to reconcile the Roman Empire's militarism with the ideal of "loving thy neighbor."