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

During the next few days the village was in a state of anticipative pleasure and of effort to find for the rummage-sale articles which were damaged or useless.

From Westways by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

De Courval, rising, bowed to the anticipative partner, and said, "No; the President may want me."

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

For there was a very remarkable comet visible during most of the time, and Dapsul, ever melancholy and anticipative of evil, considered that he was involved in its influence.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm