Example Sentences

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In the coming season, the network has been pinning its hopes on revivals like “American Idol” and “Roseanne” to help improve its standing in the ratings.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2017

Despite the U.S. election, the government has been pinning its hopes on the U.S. president to help persuade some of the country’s more reluctant international creditors, such as Germany, to grant it significant debt relief.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2016

With its core business—selling routers and other Internet plumbing—expected to expand by about 9 percent a year, Cisco has been pinning its growth hopes on gear that creates new, byte-hogging ways of using the Internet.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 18, 2010

I was just going to meet Mater at the jail where she has been pinning rosebuds on repentant bosoms.

From A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan