fond hope

Example Sentences

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“How many weary days and weeks had I passed, upheld only by the fond hope of bringing home many new and beautiful forms from those wild regions.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2017

In the early years of the project, examining the children's genotypes was just a fond hope.

From Nature • Apr. 11, 2012

This fond hope gradually disintegrates in this highly amusing and sharply written comedy of contemporary manners as battle lines are drawn not only between the two couples but also between the partners in both marriages.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2011

But that is a fond hope, at present.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2010

Then she gives him "London Bridge," and then "Rose-Marie," and then she takes her fingers from the piano and looks at him with a fond hope that he will see fit to praise her work.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess