How to use "hoping" in a sentence

So she walked around the wet, cold streets hoping to earn something

She turned her back on the room and began to play with it, hoping that no one could see what she was doing

Maybe this man is hoping I'll change my mind, Sala thought.

She's been hoping all week for more news

Sala went to the energy center every day, hoping she'd see Wena

I hurried up some stairs, hoping that I could find my way to my bedroom in the east wing

Frank Crawley had come to lunch and the three of us were hoping to have a quiet afternoon

"I was hoping you wouldn't ask."

Sitting on the edge of the bed, she read the story again, hoping to see something important in it that she had overlooked in the first reading.

I'm hoping Danny can do it."

I was hoping it would find me, but it couldn't know that I was here