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Example sentences for "hopefully"

Lexicographically close words:
hop; hope; hoped; hopeful; hopefull; hopefulness; hopeing; hopeless; hopelesse; hopelessly
  1. As a child he had often come to this same spot to dream hopefully of the future, unboylike dreams in which the spirit of revenge wore the face of happiness.

  2. The bay was now alive with small Breton traders, and at a short distance away there was a droll little potato fleet making hopefully for the Ranger.

  3. There was an eager restless look in his clear-cut sailor's face, with quick eyes that seemed not to observe things that were near by, but to look often and hopefully toward the horizon.

  4. He fell into deep thought, and cocked his eye aloft as though contemplating a cutting-out expedition on the sails, while the soldier, sitting on the side of the ship, waited hopefully for a miracle.

  5. The boatswain pricked up his ears hopefully at the sound of approaching wheels.

  6. Hopefully seeking to loosen the slowly contracting hold of this persistent 'strangler,' the sick man has traveled in strange lands and over many waters.

  7. With much brotherly craft Charles approves of Oswald Langdon's erratic courses, speaking hopefully about prospects of full vindication.

  8. Possibly that ancient Tenderness, with bias for saving, hopefully "shadows" Pierre and Paul Lanier.

  9. We worked in the greatest possible harmony, and happily and hopefully concluded our Revision of the Authorised Version of the Gospel of St. John in the month of March, 1857.

  10. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.

  11. Now, under the projected pax orbis terrarum all fear of invasion, it is hopefully believed, will be removed; and with the disappearance of this fear should also disappear the drag of national loyalty on the counsels of the underbred.

  12. It may be left an open question how far a corrective of this nature can hopefully be looked to as applicable, in case of need, under the projected German Imperial usufruct.

  13. Any warlike enterprise that is hopefully to be entered on must have the moral sanction of the community, or of an effective majority in the community.

  14. And no alien government resting on the support of a home population trained in the habits of democracy or given over to ideals of common honesty in national concerns could hopefully undertake the enterprise.

  15. Might be Ah goes to-day, Aleck," he hopefully smiles as I pause at his cell.

  16. It is the shadow of pain which touches the young face with such pathetic patience, but Beth seldom complains and always speaks hopefully of 'being better soon'.

  17. Perhaps that is why a new generation, hungry for great contemporary art, turns more hopefully to painting than to literature.

  18. That is where the Edwardian-Georgian age differed most hopefully from the Victorian.

  19. Not one fourth of those assumed to be "hopefully converted" in revival seasons stay converted, while the backsliders are worse Christians, and those who remain pious are no better Protestants, than they were before their conversion.

  20. Literature was calling him most hopefully when, at the very prime of life, he turned his back on fortune.

  21. Eagerly and hopefully did the Calydonian warriors rally around him.

  22. And all day long Loki kept stirring the fire, and Odin and Hoenir waited hopefully but impatiently.

  23. It is a union to which we have been looking hopefully forward for some time past--a most excellent conjunction of hearts and fortunes.

  24. I like them by me," and the culprits turned hopefully with pricked ears and anxious faces.

  25. We bowed patiently and unquestioningly to its periodic eccentricity as part of the Fate that fell upon the original sinner, and watched hopefully the powerful men who might in their pleasure or their wisdom end our sufferings.

  26. That suited Christie, and she thought hopefully within herself: "This woman has got the sort of religion I want, if it makes her what she is.

  27. When it was done, she drew nearer, to her friendly confidante the fire, and till late into the night sat thinking tenderly of the past, bravely of the present, hopefully of the future.

  28. And they set forth hopefully again in search of the picturesque.

  29. After he had met Ernestine in the course of the negotiations with the agent of the property, he reported more hopefully to his wife of Milly's new undertaking.

  30. To anyone who spoke confidently and hopefully concerning human affairs, Lord Dymchurch gave willing attention.

  31. She was much more amiable in her demeanour, more cheerful in mind; she dropped the habit of irony, and talked hopefully of Lashmar's prospects.

  32. He was hopefully anticipating a cheerful evening of life in the midst of his family.

  33. So the little folks blessed the snow-storm, and were glad to see it come thicker and thicker, and watched hopefully the long drift that was piling itself up in the avenue, and was already higher than any of their heads.

  34. One morning the child spoke to Bellerophon even more hopefully than usual.

  35. We have not yet reached the point when housework will do itself; but in great establishments like this, where one man, working ten minutes an hour, warms two or three hundred rooms, menial labor is hopefully reduced.

  36. I endure the inevitable ills of life with more fortitude, and look forward more hopefully to the coming years.

  37. And he stood with kindling brow, gazing into the autumn air, as his heart went sorrowing, but hopefully "sorrowing, back through all the faultful past.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hopefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afterwards; anon; cheerfully; gladly; happily; hopefully; joyfully; later; lightly; manana; pleasantly; probably; soon