8 sentences with 'hoping'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hoping and other words derived from it.
• « One of the rescuers squeezed a small jack under the rock, hoping to lift it high enough to free Dwayne. »
• « Henry the Navigator sponsored numerous Portuguese expeditions along the west coast of Africa, hoping to somehow seize land or at least find routes to lucrative sources of gold and spices. »
• « Some conquistadors simply launched expeditions to the New World without royal authorisation, hoping to seize enough booty to receive retroactive royal approval. »
• « Catherine the Great, hoping to increase the efficiency of the Russian state, expanded the bureaucracy, reorganised the administrative divisions of the Russian Empire and introduced a more rigorous and comprehensive education for future army officers. »
• « The Assembly struggled desperately to maintain control of the situation, hoping in part to win free people of colour in the colony to fight alongside white plantation owners to maintain control. »
• « It was soon discovered that the royal family had been corresponding with foreign monarchs and nobles, hoping to inspire an invasion from abroad to return the king to the throne and end the Revolution by force. »
• « In May 1860, Garibaldi, with a small force of 1,000 red-shirted volunteers (mostly northern Italian citizens, including numerous underemployed professionals and students hoping to avoid their exams) huddled aboard two leaky steamships, and set out to invade Sicily. Very quickly, Garibaldi captured Palermo, Sicily's main city. »
• « US President Woodrow Wilson, hoping to avoid future wars on the scale of World War I and, just as importantly, to present an attractive anti-communist vision for a peaceful world order, helped to organise a new international body: the League of Nations. »