anticipative

Example Sentences

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The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apprehens′ive, pertaining to the laying hold of sensuous and mental impressions: intelligent, clever: having an apprehension or notion of: fearful: anticipative of something adverse.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

The Mother thought she had never been so happy before in her life, and the ugly little beast yelped with anticipative joy.

From The Very Small Person by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green