adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
look
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He looked hopefully at Zen who waggled his finger and walked off up the street.
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At the bus stop he looked hopefully for Gabriel.
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They discussed some workhouse business together, and then Mr Bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.
say
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She says hopefully it will be the only opportunity to look inside a prison.
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She says hopefully the hunger strike will achieve something.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"But," Tim added hopefully , "there's always tomorrow."
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Hopefully I'll be home by nine tonight.
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Hopefully we can find a way of solving this problem.
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He's been resting today, so hopefully he'll be feeling better tomorrow.
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This exercise should give you a good review for the test, hopefully .
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We're hopefully going to keep practicing once a month.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite all those sweaty men who came, rummaged hopefully and yet failed to prise it over his nose.
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It has been pushed beyond the limit by many dealers and hopefully these are the dealers that will have to close.
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It is this special knowledge, or gnosis, which hopefully can make the inside ethnography so different and illuminating.
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They all looked at him, Dalziel interrogatively, Antony hopefully , Connon fearfully.
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This method of operation will hopefully give the team overall control.