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

The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.

From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita

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

Mrs. Munger prompted, with an increase of expectance in her large clear eyes, and of impartiality in her whole face.

From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean