Hoped in example sentence

True, those walls did not work as well as had been hoped, but Japan was nonetheless much better prepared for a tsunami than Padang is.

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I had hoped my voice would be saved, but my doctors knew that the breathing tubes going down my throat might have already destroyed it.

Twenty years ago, doctors would have cut off my leg and hoped, and there was a 15 percent survival rate.

What if I'd not shown some concern for the state of the environment and just hoped that someone, somewhere, was taking care of the matter?

We hoped that life would go back to normal.

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