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
That need not affect the attitude of expectance, for it comes to substantially the same thing whether Christ comes to us or we go to Him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander
The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.
From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita
Terence quickly obeyed, while the others looked on in eager expectance.
From The Misfit Christmas Puddings by Consolation, Club
