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

If we exercise expectance, and desire and petition and faithful stewardship, we shall get what we need.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

All nature seemed rich and glowing with the deep expectance of my heart.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye,   As though some spell in sorrow bound him, His slavish courtiers thronging nigh,   In sad expectance stood around him.

From The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems by Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich