How to Use hopefully in a Sentence

hopefully

adverb
Definition of hopefullynext
Synonyms for hopefullynext
  • They gazed up at us hopefully.
  • Hopefully, things will get better soon.
  • So that was my goal, just to have fun, and hopefully win some games.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
  • For their sake, the ad hopefully won’t be a repeat of the 2024 Grammys.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t the end for Levis, and hopefully his wait will end on Friday.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Just trying to train smart, ease back in, and be ready for something, hopefully, by the end of the year.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • So, mom and dad, hopefully, fingers crossed, can be home in April, May.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Then one day, hopefully, the doctors or the scientists can come up with a cure.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • For a lot of people, the onset of winter means one thing: powder, and hopefully lots of it.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Aulakh said that hopefully, the robots will also affect the taste of the restaurant's food - for the better.
    — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • This song turns up the heat, and hopefully is just the first of more collaborations to come from these two.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
  • That means the carrier would start with two to three flights a week and then hopefully ramp up, said the ambassador.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The new design will hopefully result in smoother flights.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
  • This means that the house will go onto the market wider, hopefully selling for a profit.
    — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 5 Nov. 2023
  • There’s this setup, which hopefully is good and says something in and of itself.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • Dive Into the Night Sky With warm nights and (hopefully) clear skies, summer is a great time for stargazing.
    — Science Near Me, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Option two was to barricade the outside door with desks and hide under the windows (out of sight and hopefully out of the line of fire).
    — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • My only goal in that was to hopefully bring attention to it.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • One that would hopefully leave the neoliberal order in the dust.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • In sports, a foul might stop someone from scoring, but you’ll still (hopefully) get whistled for it.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 7 June 2023
  • The time, hopefully, is used to assess the power of speech, the importance of avoiding harmful words and of saying good ones.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • And hopefully, if all goes well, the air conditioning in the Walker Pavilion will be online late next week and the Hogs can beat the heat that way as well.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2023
  • And maybe a few, hopefully, will become lifelong mariners.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Given that Zendaya is a cohost of this year's event, hopefully the entire Dune cast & co. will show up and show out.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Campbell has been thinking about what to place in the time capsule, hopefully for her great grandchildren to find.
    — Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And hopefully promoting us all month on football and across all of their other shows.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • That song is one of my all time favorites and is one that hopefully an audience will be surprised and delighted by and just be ready for the rest of the ride.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
  • There are sticky notes all over the place but hopefully there will be no arguing afterward.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, a mixture of mainly turkeys and a couple of blockbusters that hopefully will pay for all the clinkers and then some.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • It’s made from a lightweight cotton poplin that’ll (hopefully) offset all the heat emanating from the ovens and stoves!
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023

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