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

Pore on, fair Creature! forever pore, Nor dream to be disenchanted more: For vain is expectance, and wish in vain, 'Till a new Narcissus can come again.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

Penelope was yawning with her hand on her mouth; she stopped, and, with a laugh of amused expectance, sank into a chair, her shoulders shrugged forward.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean

Every social circle has its talkers, who hang upon each other's periods in expectance of the moment when they can successfully push in their own word.

From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton