anticipative
Example Sentences
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The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
He divined that at this she would be very brave and buoyant, and he was lost in anticipative admiration; when she was neither he admired more than ever.
From Romance Island by Gale, Zona
Long before train time not only the office itself, but the adjoining rooms and the porch outside, were comfortably crowded with a pleasantly anticipative collection of interested observers.
From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne
The soft melancholy of the countenance and attitude of Adonis, as if anticipative of his early death, and the languid self-sufficiency of Paris, appeared to me equally admirable.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
