How to Use optimist in a Sentence

optimist

noun

• But for the optimists out there, there is a little hope.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2017
• Solomon the optimist sees these goals as attainable — with lots of hard work.
  — Tom Ferrick, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Yet even a barge optimist like Grenville concedes weather can get in the way.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 8 Aug. 2017
• Snowmobiles are sitting on green grass in front of the homes of optimists.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
• Alien made Stanley Kubrick look like an optimist, or at least a neat freak.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Kaytlynn was an optimist, with a heart bigger than anyone will ever know.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Ultimately, both the optimists and the pessimists in the Pew survey are correct in their own way.
  — Ilya Somin, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
• Charlotte could desperately use the kind of player Monk optimists project.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• If the optimists are correct, that one extra point should generate $3 trillion in extra revenues.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• Ultimately, though, there was enough evidence for the optimists and pessimists each to support their outlook.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• This is the future of wellness, the optimists emphatically say.
  — Alexandra Kirkman, SELF, 4 Aug. 2017
• Online-protest optimists saw the Arab Spring as evidence that these enabling tools create democratic change.
  — Wendy Grossman, Ars Technica, 23 July 2017
• Buffalonians by nature — and against all evidence — are optimists.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• Richard was an optimist, pragmatist and a modern Renaissance man with varied skills and interests throughout his life.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• At the start of 2018 the optimists had the better case.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• To have the show revolve around an optimist is in some ways a risk.
  — Joshua Kissi, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• An optimist would say that the Warriors are due to hit one — right?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2022
• The optimist in me, though, is hopeful this will change soon.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Jan. 2023
• Ever the optimist, Jenn is looking on the bright side of things.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• That’s the optimist in him, the part of him that believes things are going to get better.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2018
• That's Todd, the eternal optimist and one resilient son of a gun.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• My inner optimist rebels against that, but the news backs him up.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2020
• Left behind was the body of Ivan, the cheerful optimist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
• What the optimists and pessimists agree on is that the business model has to change.
  — Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• This is a slow rebuild that’s just left the starting gate, and even that is the optimist’s viewpoint.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
• But that’s like the joke about the optimist who’s fallen out of a 100-story building.
  — William Poundstone, Vox, 5 July 2019
• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
  — Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2023
• Even an optimist like Vitale wasn’t quite ready to go there.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• On Tuesday, Lee sounded like a careful optimist, which is what a coach in his position should be.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024