How to Use high hopes in a Sentence

high hopes

noun
  • Mabry and the Huskies had high hopes for this season, but turning a dream into reality isn’t always realistic.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2024
  • These efforts, despite high hopes and initial enthusiasm, don't always deliver the large-scale, game-changing outcomes they were meant to produce.
    Pierrick Bouffaron, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Paramount+ had high hopes for the series, which launched out of the Teen Wolf: The Movie on the streamer.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Despite the high hopes for the new tests, there are many questions.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • Like Strange, the Jaguars had high hopes for Bigsby as a rookie.
    Mark Long, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The Lakers had high hopes that the 6-foot-2 combo guard would be able to provide them the same strong play.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • There were high hopes the app would help people stay in treatment longer.
    Aneri Pattani, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Holden says he’s got high hopes that the two sides can reach an agreement and avoid a strike.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 26 June 2024
  • Investors have had high hopes for a soft landing in the U.S. economy for much of the year.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
  • All that was left for USC was to reason how a season that started with such high hopes had come to this.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The home’s sky-high asking price will prove daunting to many, but Mrs. Little has high hopes for its sale.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 June 2024
  • The Pistons had high hopes for Livers, their 2021 second-round pick.
    Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
  • At one point, Wall Street had high hopes that rate cuts would begin this month and that the Fed could cut rates as much as six times this year.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Unsurprisingly, the house has quite high hopes for the car.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 July 2024
  • Phillips had high hopes for the imperial Ref. 96 Quantieme Lune.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 May 2023
  • Investors had high hopes that the trio of recent big IPOs would be enough to crack the door open and let the flood of unicorns through to the public markets.
    Anne Sraders, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, the Tigers had high hopes for Chance Westry to contribute this season.
    Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 19 Mar. 2023
  • When The Force Awakens arrived at the end of 2015, there was still high hopes among fans for the trilogy helmed by Disney.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • San Diego Padres – After a whirlwind winter of spending two years ago, the Padres had high hopes for 2023.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Summer Haag and Clyde Kertzer had high hopes for their summer research project.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • There are high hopes for sophomore Matthew Muehlnickel to blossom.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The episode started with high hopes as Statler noted that her meeting with Dempsey would be life-defining.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
  • That meant a tiny amount of buying pushed up the stock, giving the illusion that Wall Street had high hopes for the company.
    WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
  • While the therapeutic use of psychedelics is still in its research phase, Bob Parsons and the team at Mount Sinai have high hopes for the future of the field.
    Sarah Young, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Tammy Slaton has high hopes of getting behind the wheel.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • With high hopes for the next season, White has his mind set on cracking 1,000 rushing yards and winning in Tampa Bay.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2024
  • How can young people have high hopes or sing about forever love and peace ever after when the world shows them none of these things?
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The country entered the 2019 tournament in France with high hopes, a growing reputation and the best striker in the world.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Wall Street has some high hopes that Nvidia’s stock will soar past its new high of $775 because of its booming AI chip business and self-driving car deals.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Both have been in fine form in recent weeks and Real Madrid continue to harbor high hopes for both of the attackers.
    Sam Leveridge, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

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