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

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

There was a note of anticipative defiance in the young voice as she spoke.

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

The Elder and Neil became restless and anticipative, and Maria could not escape the feverish mental contagion.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston