expectantly

Example Sentences

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Outside the gates of one closed filling station, dozens of motorbike riders still queued expectantly.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Scientists are also waiting expectantly, hoping Starship can enable entirely new kinds of research throughout the Solar System.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 14, 2024

"Tonight is the first day of the rest of my life," the man says as he primps expectantly.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2023

Now they were looking at him expectantly, with more than a little hope, even as protesters who had packed the chambers yet again chanted and slapped their seats in a relentless cacophony of hopelessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Hazel now saw that Speedwell and Acorn were behind him, listening expectantly.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams