How to Use optimist in a Sentence

optimist

noun

• 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
• But for the optimists out there, there is a little hope.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Yet even a barge optimist like Grenville concedes weather can get in the way.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 8 Aug. 2017
• Solomon the optimist sees these goals as attainable — with lots of hard work.
  — Tom Ferrick, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Alien made Stanley Kubrick look like an optimist, or at least a neat freak.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Even an optimist like Vitale wasn’t quite ready to go there.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• The optimist would tell you Green Bay simply knows how to win close games under LaFleur.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• The optimists, which include Mr. Bove, hope that the club can find a happy medium — and a way to succeed.
  — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Snowmobiles are sitting on green grass in front of the homes of optimists.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Nov. 2017
• In the world of climate discourse, Gates is what’s known as a techno-optimist.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
• Pandemic or not, Philip Galanes is in the end an optimist.
  — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2020
• Springsteen is an optimist, but he's not given up the good fight.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2021
• To the optimist, spring in the Midwest is all about budding trees and crocuses.
  — Sally Schwartz, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• In both of these debates, Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives is on the side of the optimists.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Ever the optimist, Marshall says the future (of food) is bright.
  — Phil Lempert, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• But for now, with inflation nearing the Fed’s 2% target and the job market still notching strong gains, the optimists seem to be having a moment.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024
• Where an optimist might sit and wait for a bright future to arrive, a hopeful person pulls themselves towards it, often through great effort.
  — Jamil Zaki, TIME, 23 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024