expectance

Example Sentences

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“A stasis develops between expectance and realization,” he wrote of a piece in 1971.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2020

It conveyed all the tension, expectance and suspense.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 4, 2012

Terence quickly obeyed, while the others looked on in eager expectance.

From The Misfit Christmas Puddings by Consolation, Club

The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.

From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita

Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye,   As though some spell in sorrow bound him, His slavish courtiers thronging nigh,   In sad expectance stood around him.

From The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems by Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich