Sample Sentences for
sanguine
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    I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the...  (source)
    sanguine = confidently optimistic and cheerful
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    The sanguine hope of good, however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yet deserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and that every morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father, to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce their marriage.  (source)
    sanguine = optimistic
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    You weren't so sanguine two days ago.  (source)
    sanguine = confidently optimistic
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    to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.  (source)
    sanguine = optimistic and cheerful
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    I had never actually met the boy, though I thought I could see him easily in his mother, whose sanguinity and resolve I admired without bound.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Bates was engaged to spend the evening at Hartfield, James had due notice, and he sanguinely hoped that neither dear little Henry nor dear little John would have any thing the matter with them, while dear Emma were gone.†  (source)
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    You seem rather sanguine about how hard you will be working them yourself, Titch.†  (source)
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    I helped myself to green beans, trying to look more sanguine than I felt.†  (source)
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    And at around 6:25, that dark humor which had seemed at dawn to be the very foundation of Emile's soul, would become irreversibly sanguine when the first order was delivered to his kitchen.†  (source)
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    Harry, who did not feel as sanguine as he had pretended when reassuring Hermione, was glad to reach the gate and the slippery pavement.†  (source)
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    Danny himself was more sanguine; if Daddy thought the bug would make this one last trip, then probably it would.†  (source)
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    His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended.†  (source)
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    Scarlett looked down at Melanie's tiny hips with none too sanguine hopes but said reassuringly: "Oh, it's not really so bad."†  (source)
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