anticipant

How to use anticipant in a sentence

• He said "Now" with a little sucking in of breath and a thin anticipant smile and spun on his heel.

  Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 | Various

• Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly.

  Nedra | George Barr McCutcheon

• His gaze troubled her, and when he withdrew his eyes she looked at him, anticipant and fearing.

  Spring Days | George Moore