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

In all probability, too, this element of expectance has indirect as well as direct effects, and the indirect are not the least fruitful in results.

From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice

Stepping forward, then, Down to the house of death, in vague expectance, I sent a curious, not unshrinking, gaze.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

Take advantage of his absence, Mark; it is a grace that God gives thee beyond expectance.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir