expectant
Example Sentences
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Essential supplies will be delivered to expectant families in some of the most deprived areas of Wales from Monday.
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Then she makes a beeline for a gaggle of giggling children and expectant women, most in flowing black cloaks.
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The expectant silence turned into a puzzled one as no one knew what this meant.
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She had downloaded a social networking app for new and expectant mothers, and began messaging a woman who lived nearby.
From BBC
Prof Grainne McAlonnan, from King's College London, said expectant mothers "do not need the stress of questioning whether medicine most commonly used for a headache could have far reaching effects on their child's health".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.