Word Finder - hoping

definition

To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.

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I am still hoping that all will turn out well.

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To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

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To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.

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To wish.

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I hope you all the best.

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Filled with or inspiring hope.

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A hoping situation is not yet desolate.

I was hoping to find someone to take back with me.

It was like fishing in a bath tub and hoping for a bite.

Maybe he was hoping she would say no.

I was hoping you'd be gone.

The people are still hoping to see Your Majesty again.

I kept hoping things would just go well.

I enclose a ticket, hoping that you will come.

She buried her face in his shoulder, hoping he wouldn't notice she was crying.

It was a call he'd been expecting but hoping not to get.

Jule sighed, hoping she left this time.

Joseph was ready to end the conversation but Dean was hoping for more fish in his creel.

I strolled up town, hoping to catch them.

I … I guess I keep hoping when I walk out of my apartment next time, things will be normal.

I'm hoping that's Jerry, and I don't want him to hear you two fighting in the background.

He had known her for a long time, and he had come to Ashley hoping she would be here.

Dean was hoping to find it or at least telltale signs that a body had decomposed on this spot, but no such evidence was apparent.

She found herself hoping Gabriel made it here before Rhyn did.

In any case, it seems better to me than irradiating corn, planting it, and hoping to hit a jackpot.

He left in order not to obstruct the commander-in-chief's undivided control of the army, and hoping that more decisive action would then be taken, but the command of the armies became still more confused and enfeebled.

Lisa insisted, still hoping to get a different answer.

I crossed my fingers, hoping my mocking his speech would remain undetected.

She ignored the hunk, hoping he'd take the hint.

I know, Darian! she replied, hoping the man in her head didn't distract her.

The demons are planning something, Kris, and hoping someone comes to your rescue is stupid, he returned.

Equally, how many people take up the violin hoping to achieve rock stardom.

Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte's stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him.

The few inhabitants who had remained invited commanding officers to their houses, hoping thereby to secure themselves from being plundered.

Dean was hoping so.

In 1499, appealed to by Venice, and encouraged by his favorite, Cardinal dAmboise (who was hoping to succeed Pope Alexander VI.), and also by Cesare Borgia, who had lofty ambitions in Italy, Louis XII.

In the summer of 1893, an emissary was captured near Mush, and the governor, hoping to secure others, ordered the Kurdish Irregular Horse to raid the mountain district.

Now comes a new starlet hoping to tread a similar path.

For 45 minutes we hung completely stationary in mid-water, hoping in vain for the shoal to come near.

We are hoping Clipper don't levy a surcharge!

They then tramped northwards through thick pine forests, hoping to jump on a boat to Sweden.

This year the date has been set for Sunday July 14 and PC Carey is hoping for a bumper turnout.

Ive heard this therapy is very good & am hoping it will help me as i'm still pretty uptight.

Hoping to beat your idea of a cascading waterfall.

This refusal was twice repeated in September and October, the court hoping to obtain evidence sufficient to ensure his ruin.

On the 16th, hoping probably to save herself by these means, she informed Cranmer of a certain supposed impediment to her marriage with the king - according to some accounts a previous marriage with Northumberland, though the latter solemnly and positively denied it - which was never disclosed, but which, having been considered by the archbishop and a committee of ecclesiastical lawyers, was pronounced, on the 17th, sufficient to invalidate her marriage.

The young king, still hoping for Napoleon's favour, now responded to the suggestion, forwarded by Savary, that an interview with the emperor would clear up the situation.

Bohemund procured the election of Dagobert, the archbishop of Pisa, to the vacant patriarchate, disliking Arnulf, and perhaps hoping to find in the new patriarch a political supporter.

Peace was arranged at Ragusa in 1842, and it was rumoured that Ali had concluded a secret alliance with Montenegro, hoping to shake off the suzerainty of the sultan, and to found an entirely independent kingdom.

The leading spirit of this reform was Giano della Bella, a noble who by engaging in trade had become a popolano; the grandi now tried to make him unpopular with the popolani grassi, hoping that without him the Ordinamenti would not be executed, and opened negotiations with Pope Boniface VIII.

This work Chillingworth engaged to answer, and Knott, hearing of his intention and hoping to bias the public mind, hastily brought out a pamphlet tending to show that Chillingworth was a Socinian who aimed at perverting not only Catholicism but Christianity.

Potocki, now minister-president, then entered on negotiations, hoping to persuade the Czechs to accept the constitution.

Hadi, indignant at the fact that she was generally regarded as the real source of authority, had attempted to poison her, and Khaizoran, hoping to find a more submissive instrument of her will in her second and favourite son, caused Hadi to be smothered with cushions by two young slaves whom she had presented to him.

What nonsense! she said, hoping it was a joke.

Gangs of carpenters hoping for high pay arrived in Moscow every day, and on all sides logs were being hewn, new houses built, and old, charred ones repaired.

The best way to shop for airline tickets to any of the European cities you are hoping to travel to is to keep shopping for them.

For women hoping to conceive a child, this can be a big boost.