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

The Elder and Neil became restless and anticipative, and Maria could not escape the feverish mental contagion.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

On the contrary, they show a dreary apathy, morbid fearfulness, or a belligerent self-defence, anticipative of other forms of the cruel neglect which has been their dreary experience.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

All her vital energy was busy in her anticipative brain, and glancing thence in sparkles from her eyes, and quivering down in swift currents to her restless little feet.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)