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
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
Terence quickly obeyed, while the others looked on in eager expectance.
From The Misfit Christmas Puddings by Consolation, Club
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
