Sentence examples for hope for was from inspiring English sources

I'd accepted that the most I could hope for was a place in the audience.

The only thing I could hope for was to make an appearance in somebody else's".

If I succeeded, the best I could hope for was to be the race's biggest loser.

The best that Reagan could hope for was victory on a few big initiatives.

All James could hope for was an exploiter with a sense of decorum.

The best I could hope for was the minimal relief provided by drool-promoting drugs.

Only the immediate outcome was relevant; all we could hope for was to reach the next step, whatever it was.

Mr. Jacobs is also a humorist by profession, and the best he could hope for was to turn the dispiriting finding into a punch line.

The best you could hope for was an artist who stood out, as Patricia Esquivias did in the otherwise wan "Mass Ornament" at Gladstone.

Mr. Reed took no prisoners (and still doesn't); if you were a modernist architect, the best you could hope for was "no comment".

But the Democrats won fewer governors' races than they had been predicting, and the best they could hope for was a 50-50 split among governorships nationwide.