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
The moment is much too awful, the expectance much too sublime, for any such human, girlish emotions.
From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Penelope was yawning with her hand on her mouth; she stopped, and, with a laugh of amused expectance, sank into a chair, her shoulders shrugged forward.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean
