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 Alice Henry
The dumb misery of a terrible expectance held every faculty in its iron grasp.
From The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita
They're upon the last sound; but our expectance of that great Count, whose desires are winged for us, foreflow our entry.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
