Example Sentences

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But she says the system self regulates because a publisher and a store would never exchange money for a "no hoper".

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022

Of course, there's a difference: in the movie, Bill's no-hoper status encourages him to cut loose with a campaign centred on real substance, and thus it is that the no-hoper becomes a hoper.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2010

But I warn you I am a terrible hoper.

From The Flight of the Shadow by MacDonald, George

I have always been an obstinate hoper: and even this is a 'datum' and a symptom of hope to me, that a better, an ancestral, spirit is forming and will appear in the rising generation.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

There was no appeal, and aloft went the wounded, ragged, famished hoper of devouring turtle-soup.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick