How to Use sanguine in a Sentence

sanguine

adjective

• He is sanguine about the company's future.
• She has a sanguine disposition.
• Others are less sanguine about the scale of the task ahead.
  — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• The trustees chose to take a sanguine approach to the future.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• The state is less sanguine about the prospects of the property and gives $4 million for it.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Goodman's critics from both the right and the left aren't as sanguine.
  — Neri Zilber, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• When asked about the risks of this very hands-on form of science, Stern is sanguine.
  — Amy Thompson, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• None of which meant that Rogen was sanguine about the state of the industry.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• The mood is more sanguine in certain corners of the market.
  — Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Bloomberg.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Its last day will be April 16, and Lloyd Webber is not sanguine about it.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The actors and writers on the picket line are less sanguine.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• And some are less sanguine about just throwing open the schoolhouse gates.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
• And before the games were played, that’s all anyone had to work with — sanguine fantasies.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2018
• Three days before his first race, Stolz was sanguine about it all.
  — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Thompson, for one, seems rather sanguine about the whole matter.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• Now, some suspect investors are too sanguine about the months ahead.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2023
• Over the past week, the markets had been remarkably sanguine.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
• Many of those who make their living on the water are fairly sanguine about it.
  — Arthur Brice, CNN, 24 May 2021
• Investors had been too sanguine on the risk for the coronavirus to dent global growth.
  — Christine Romans, CNN, 25 Feb. 2020
• The new syringe swaps the sanguine color palette for a more versatile blue-gray hue, and gets rid of the droplet of blood.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
• These sensible, sanguine views may not be enough to hold off the panic.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• But the reality on the ground was clearly at odds with this sanguine view.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• But there are still risks to a sanguine approach to current price movements.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• If not, chuck this overall sanguine guess regarding the Cougars’ fortunes in the garbage.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021
• Preston Williams, part-owner of the Union Cab company, was more sanguine about the change.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2021
• That’s not to say that financial markets are completely sanguine about the state of the world.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Twitter, on the other hand, seems to be one of the most sanguine social media platforms on the topic of cannabis.
  — Vanessa Gabriel, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2021
• For now, many employers are sanguine about the prospect of asking staff to come back to office two or three days a week.
  — Lucy Meakin, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2021
• Economists are less sanguine about the prospects for the office market.
  — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Renard is sanguine about his rare feat of coaching in two World Cups within a year.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 22 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024