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
Pore on, fair Creature! forever pore, Nor dream to be disenchanted more: For vain is expectance, and wish in vain, 'Till a new Narcissus can come again.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye, As though some spell in sorrow bound him, His slavish courtiers thronging nigh, In sad expectance stood around him.
From The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems by Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich
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
