expectance
Example Sentences
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“A stasis develops between expectance and realization,” he wrote of a piece in 1971.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2020
It conveyed all the tension, expectance and suspense.
From Golf Digest • Sep. 4, 2012
Stepping forward, then, Down to the house of death, in vague expectance, I sent a curious, not unshrinking, gaze.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
This is the spirit of a joyous but devoutly grateful expectance, in which I would have myself approach the reading of a great book.
From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman
Though she only said "perhaps," her face brightened and she looked with pleased expectance at this young man who had brought so much happiness and jollity into her life.
From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White
