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

Jubilation glowed in the witch's glance; anticipative relish of the flavour of triumph lent her voice a shriller note.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean