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
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
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 Alexander Maclaren
All nature seemed rich and glowing with the deep expectance of my heart.
From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
