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
"No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean
Stepping forward, then, Down to the house of death, in vague expectance, I sent a curious, not unshrinking, gaze.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
At length, and as I stood upon the doorstep, a trembling, a mighty expectance, seized me like an ague-fit; and I heard myself saying, 'I am come to see the body, Mrs. Gudgeon.'
From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
