anticipative

Example Sentences

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Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

So, by the way, did Split, out in the hall, her eye at the crack of the door, her feet lifting alternately with anticipative rapture.

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson

This was peculiarly the appanage of youth, being the anticipative melancholy, the pensive foreboding, distilled from the blighted hopes of former generations of youth.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean