anticipative

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

During the next few days the village was in a state of anticipative pleasure and of effort to find for the rummage-sale articles which were damaged or useless.

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)

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)