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

Meanwhile complacent Partlet sits and broods, Blandly anticipative.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 by Various

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

All her vital energy was busy in her anticipative brain, and glancing thence in sparkles from her eyes, and quivering down in swift currents to her restless little feet.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)