hoper

Example Sentences

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But she says the system self regulates because a publisher and a store would never exchange money for a "no hoper".

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022

Of course, there's a difference: in the movie, Bill's no-hoper status encourages him to cut loose with a campaign centred on real substance, and thus it is that the no-hoper becomes a hoper.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2010

Hence, while the hoper enjoys only the future, the achiever, if his joy-digesting apparatus be working properly, rejoices with exceeding great joy in past, present, and future alike.

From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven

But I warn you I am a terrible hoper.

From The Flight of the Shadow by MacDonald, George

I have always been an obstinate hoper: and even this is a 'datum' and a symptom of hope to me, that a better, an ancestral, spirit is forming and will appear in the rising generation.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson