How to Use hopeful in a Sentence

hopeful

1 of 2 adjective
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  • The mood is sad rather than hopeful.
  • The movie has a hopeful ending.
  • She is hopeful of winning the race.
  • I still feel hopeful about the future.
  • There are hopeful signs that the crisis may end soon.
  • He was hopeful that things would get better soon.
  • Investigators report that there have been some hopeful developments in the case.
  • Here’s the hopeful story by the Desert Sun’s Erin Rode.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Duckett was hopeful that the skies would clear in the afternoon, but as in New York, that was not the case.
    — Alexandra Olson and Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • My three-year-old is still standing in front of me with the paper, his face bright and hopeful.
    — Cesca Major, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2023
  • The Rangers are hopeful Nathan Eovaldi will be back in two weeks.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Warriors will go from a play-in hopeful to the kind of opponent no one wants to face in the playoffs.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • And everyone is hopeful that the spa will bring in tourists, and their money.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The blooming of jacarandas often signals the start of pre-summer, the most hopeful time of year.
    — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Dodgers Dodgers are hopeful Tyler Glasnow can be an ace.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • In 1976, the mayoral hopeful Bella Abzug and others held rallies at the Baths.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, the GOP hopeful has gone all in on climate denial.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
  • On a more hopeful note, the hotel and restaurant sectors continue to hire in a big way.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The club remains in talks with captain Carlos Vela and is hopeful of re-signing him as a free agent.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The University is hopeful that he is found safe very soon.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Pizza Rat exists on my phone amid the detritus of a more hopeful life.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But Khan was hopeful that most people would be happy to compromise for the greater good.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But Mac remains hopeful that country music, as a whole, can change for the better.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2023
  • If the news is good, the family is hopeful that Xavier will be able to return home and just need quarterly check-ups.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • That stat is obviously a depressing stat, but there’s a lot in the book that’s hopeful too.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Detroit Red Wings turn westward on a note both unhappy and hopeful.
    — Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
  • And a film that felt at once hopeful and foreboding now takes on a dreadful prescience.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Still, Tear is hopeful that the voting panel is getting younger and more open-minded.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Prosecutors can request that the Court of Criminal Appeals review the case, but Mason’s team is hopeful the judgment will stand.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Beyond capturing the hopeful joy that the new season brings, the poem also encapsulates my eagerness for the arrival of all things green: the trees, the flowers and, most importantly, the produce.
    — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
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hopeful

2 of 2 noun
  • Few of the White House hopefuls face the lofty expectations in Iowa that Trump does.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Another thing some of the GOP hopefuls are trying to hit Biden on is his age.
    — Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Haley and Scott are both in their fifties, which is on the younger end of the crowded field of Republican hopefuls.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The debate will provide early clues to whether the latest group of hopefuls has come up with a better way.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The school is a must stop for any presidential hopeful in the first-in-the-nation primary state.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • Season 24 of The Voice is heating up, as the hopefuls look to nail down their places in the competition during the battle rounds.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Iowa offers less than 2% of the total delegates on the table for White House hopefuls.
    — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Training facilities across Ukraine have been bombed to smithereens, and Olympic hopefuls have been forced to flee the country.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Sophia King gave up the seat to run for mayor, leaving five hopefuls vying to succeed her in the ward that runs along the lakefront from the South Loop to Kenwood.
    — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • More than half a dozen White House hopefuls have met the polling and donor requirements for a spot, while others are still pushing to make it onto the stage.
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The three other championship hopefuls were ranked first, second and third.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 11 June 2023
  • The full cast of Seattle hopefuls, or the official season 4 trailer, has yet to be revealed.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But were the events legit in the eyes of the film academy, which enforces how and when Oscar hopefuls get to woo the figures that hand them golden trophies?
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Noora is one of the impressive top 12 hopefuls who performed at Australian Idol's first live show last night.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Its lawyers threatened to sue Fontes, to keep Grayson and other down-ballot hopefuls from running under its aegis.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But for awards hopefuls in Hollywood, there’s one metric that is far more difficult to track: What do people in the seats think?
    — Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Former first lady Sandra Torres, the leading candidate in a field of more than 20 hopefuls, fell far short of the 50% plus one needed to win in the first round.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • In the meantime, dampening the spirits of the soft-landing hopefuls was that Fed Chair Jerome Powell put off talk of interest rate cuts.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Four non-Derby hopefuls have also died, the first being 3-year-old filly Take Charge Briana.
    — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2023
  • That could make DeSantis a prime target for lower-polling hopefuls.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 7 May 2023
  • At his press conference on Tuesday, Ramaswamy said other White House hopefuls had to take a public stand as well.
    — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 14 June 2023
  • Explore See latest videos, charts and news The episode spiced things up by making each of the hopefuls perform a solo track and a separate song as trios; the results will be aired on the Tuesday night episode.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The board later narrowed the remaining hopefuls to three, board member Jamie D. Clemmer said during the meeting.
    — Josh Snyder, arkansasonline.com, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Perkins occupies a spot in the clubhouse where a number of other hopefuls such as Eddy Alvarez reside.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Timmerman was one of the makeover hopefuls who posted an audition to TikTok, seeking to become a patient of Wilstead's.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The series will continue its exciting audition portion where hopefuls will sing their hearts out for a chance to move on.
    — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, not winning a Globe isn’t really cause for Oscar hopefuls to panic.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The other Republican hopefuls fall somewhere in the middle.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But had these young hopefuls not gained the respect—and financial backing—of their older peers early on, society might never have known the iPhone, Excel or the ‘like’ button.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Her passion for life, music and helping others traveled far beyond her own experiences in the business, and into the lives of so many young aspiring singers & hopefuls like me.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2024

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