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

Oh, you'll like it after a while," he said, with anticipative wisdom, "but I shall be left to play with Tom.

From Westways by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

There was a note of anticipative defiance in the young voice as she spoke.

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

The Doctor, looking complacently expansive, cheerily anticipative, welcomed them on the doorstep.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir