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

At length, and as I stood upon the doorstep, a trembling, a mighty expectance, seized me like an ague-fit; and I heard myself saying, 'I am come to see the body, Mrs. Gudgeon.'

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

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

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

From The Misfit Christmas Puddings by Consolation, Club