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

He divined that at this she would be very brave and buoyant, and he was lost in anticipative admiration; when she was neither he admired more than ever.

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona

De Courval, rising, bowed to the anticipative partner, and said, "No; the President may want me."

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

How does the reader show that ll. 7-12 are merely anticipative?

From The Ontario High School Reader by Marty, A.E.