hope
Usage
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To hope for something implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. The verb expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble? Await (wait for) something implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone.
Example Sentences
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"I hope I've been, for many years, banging the drum about how amazing a place it is that we come from and how we don't get enough love," Fouracres added.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
“Everybody that has ever played with me, everyone that has watched me play, knows that. Whatever people want to make of it, I hope it’s not negative. I just hope he’s OK.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
People need hope that the city has a future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
That has helped you get to where you are today: retired, happy and, I hope, healthy, with a strong spiritual life, two homes that are paid off, and a healthy bank balance.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
A hope that Brickbane had been wrong, that Clare had not been a terrible, unloved animal who deserved a terrible fate.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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