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
Sometimes the child stole back from the kitchen or the barn, and peeped in upon her with a roguish expectance which her gloomy stare defeated, and then it ran off again.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean
The one girl stood erectly in the skiff, her hand resting on the rudder; she looked in curious expectance at the persistent pursuer, while the other girl rowed on with stolid indifference.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
"No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean
