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Hoped in sentence

1006 examples of Hoped in a sentence

My family had hoped for a boy, who would grow up to be the pillar of the family.
She said she was full of guilt for carrying out the one-child policy, and she hoped that by helping families have babies, she could counteract what she did in the past.
Like most assimilated German Jews, my grandparents simply hoped that the troubles of the Third Reich would blow over.
Being from the visual effects industry, we, with David, believed that we now had enough time, enough resources, and, God, we hoped we had enough money.
Because everybody hoped that would be the last girl to be born.
They can be pushed off-center a little bit, but in the end you actually still get as much of that original spectrum as you originally had hoped.
[Pumpkin Trash Break] (Laughter) [Peanut Butter Slime] [Strawberry Cream Disease] (Laughter) These flavors are not delicious, as we might have hoped they would be.
I wanted to come up with something I hoped could make me a better teacher, and give the youngsters under my supervision, be it in athletics or the English classroom, something to which to aspire, other than just a higher mark in the classroom, or more points in some athletic contest.
This is a cryopreservation unit, and it holds the bodies of the wife and mother of cryonics pioneer Robert Ettinger, who hoped to be awoken one day to extended life in good health, with advancements in science and technology, all for the cost of 35 thousand dollars, for forever.
So William Beveridge, when he wrote the first of his famous reports in 1942, created what became Britain's welfare state in which he hoped that every citizen would be an active participant in their own social well-being.
So we asked the goose to do it again, and hoped she would do somehow, a more elegant or pretty job.
And he went because he hoped the world would listen.
What the scientists there told me was that when protected this first marine reserve in 1975, they hoped and expected that certain things might happen.
For example, they hoped that certain species of fish like the New Zealand snapper would return because they had been fished to the brink of commercial extinction.
That can't be good, because if a lot of highly spiritual people are currently godless, maybe finding God is not going to be as easy as I had originally hoped.
The relationship was everything she hoped it would be.
I knew it would be a bad movie when I rented it but I hoped for a good bad movie.
I've always suspected that Australian critics will lap up any rubbish that deals with these issues, but part of me thought, or at least hoped, that they had their limits.
The subject it deals with could have made for an excellent documentary, but because of its poor execution, it left me far less educated about the issue than I had hoped to become.
I knew it would be low budget... the acting sub-par... but hoped for a few gems to be sprinkled throughout.
Well at least not in the way that I hoped for.
As a veteran of the original Tolkien craze, forty years ago, I'd hoped for more than the obvious--which doesn't always equate to the true.
I was a fan of Buffy and hoped it would come to a proper end when Angel got only one more season.
All the characters are sick in the head, so the least I expected (or hoped for) were more perverted undertones or frenzied themes.
I must be honest, I like romantic comedies, but this was not what I had hoped for.
As someone who has played rugby for nearly 20 years in the States I had hoped for a better rugby movie (even one that has something loosely to do with rugby).
I was numb to the characters, and hoped for some interesting gore and special effects.
After receiving a DVD of this with a Sunday newspaper, I hoped that it was not the usual duff films that are given away because no one would ever buy them.
This turned out to be more of a women's romance-soap-suspense film than what I hoped it was....simply a tense thriller.
What I hoped for (or even expected) was the well known "stop motion" imagery and extreme slow motions, extreme zooms and all embracing fish eye takes.
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