anticipative
Example Sentences
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Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a note of anticipative defiance in the young voice as she spoke.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
During the next few days the village was in a state of anticipative pleasure and of effort to find for the rummage-sale articles which were damaged or useless.
From Westways by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
The Doctor, looking complacently expansive, cheerily anticipative, welcomed them on the doorstep.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
