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
How tedious morns these be in our expectance Of what we tender most?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Mrs. Munger prompted, with an increase of expectance in her large clear eyes, and of impartiality in her whole face.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
Sometimes the child stole back from the kitchen or the barn, and peeped in upon her with a roguish expectance which her gloomy stare defeated, and then it ran off again.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
