How to Use sanguine in a Sentence

sanguine

adjective
  • He is sanguine about the company's future.
  • She has a sanguine disposition.
  • The trustees chose to take a sanguine approach to the future.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Three days before his first race, Stolz was sanguine about it all.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe there are times when being less sanguine would be better.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The mood isn’t so sanguine in Moscow.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Not everyone is as sanguine on stocks right now.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
  • And some are less sanguine about just throwing open the schoolhouse gates.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
  • Now, some suspect investors are too sanguine about the months ahead.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Goodman's critics from both the right and the left aren't as sanguine.
    — Neri Zilber, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But Walters is sanguine about it.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Ethan Freiberg, a fifth grader, was sanguine about the school’s demise.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • Not everyone is as sanguine about the change.
    — Dr. Marlena Corcoran, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • But not all industry sources are as sanguine.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Thompson, for one, seems rather sanguine about the whole matter.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • When asked about the risks of this very hands-on form of science, Stern is sanguine.
    — Amy Thompson, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • Many of those who make their living on the water are fairly sanguine about it.
    — Arthur Brice, CNN, 24 May 2021
  • These sensible, sanguine views may not be enough to hold off the panic.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • But there are still risks to a sanguine approach to current price movements.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2021
  • But not everyone is so sanguine.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Over the past week, the markets had been remarkably sanguine.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Cherry stockings, crimson crew socks, and sanguine thigh-highs, that type of red.
    — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Investors haven’t been this sanguine about blue-chip debt since 1997.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But the reality on the ground was clearly at odds with this sanguine view.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The state is less sanguine about the prospects of the property and gives $4 million for it.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • None of which meant that Rogen was sanguine about the state of the industry.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Investors had been too sanguine on the risk for the coronavirus to dent global growth.
    — Christine Romans, CNN, 25 Feb. 2020
  • But not everyone is so sanguine about the business of birthing on camera.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • That sanguine view would seem to be at odds with the AIM findings.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 16 Jan. 2026

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