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
How all would be hushed in expectance of the next moment's act!
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander
Let the distant reader imagine an audience of three thousand persons awaiting in breathless expectance the entrance upon the Park-stage of this great Master.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
If we exercise expectance, and desire and petition and faithful stewardship, we shall get what we need.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
