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

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

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)