How to use "hopeful" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "hopeful" in popular movie and book plots

  • Dasan and Vijayan, hopeful of getting a better job, as soon as the new managing director joins their company, wait for him to take charge.  - Nadodikkattu
  • Rajiv's sister is still hopeful of her elder brother helping her out and hence goes to his house.  - Bangaarada Manushya
  • A friend tells Scarlett that Anne and the baby both died, and she rushes back to Ballyhara hopeful that Rhett will come looking for her.  - Scarlett (Ripley novel)
  • After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his way.  - The Singing Fool
  • At first Vince is hopeful that he is innocent because he does not know how to drive, but he recognizes the victims from his dream.  - Fear in the Night (1947 film)
  • Things look slightly hopeful when the artifacts given to Aaron create sufficient grounds for a deportation hearing.  - Tribunal (The Outer Limits)
  • The movie ends on a hopeful note for Bart, when mr Zabladowski notices Heloise, and offers to drive her to town in his jeep.  - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
  • dr Anand leaves on a business trip, assuring Chandni he will be back soon, hopeful that she will be there when he returns.  - Silsila (film)
  • Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) invites NHL hopeful Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) to join him playing for the Zhambel Horsemen in Kazakhstan.  - Rollerball (2002 film)
  • they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom".  - Young Goodman Brown
  • Cruchot des Bonfons marries Eugénie hopeful of becoming fabulously wealthy.  - Eugénie Grandet
  • There is another more hopeful meaning in that from the ashes of Angela's life there comes the good things of children and caring for others.  - Angela's Ashes
  • The delegation returns and Henry announces a hopeful era of long peace with the joining of the two kingdoms.  - Henry V (1989 film)
  • The first part of the film documents the life of Mike Katz, a hopeful for the title of mr Universe.  - Pumping Iron
  • He endures a waiting period to obtain a quota number of up to eight years with other hopeful immigrants in the Esperanza Hotel.  - Hold Back the Dawn
  • In the final scene, they walk down a road at dawn, towards an uncertain but hopeful future.  - Modern Times (film)

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