expectantly

Unsurprisingly, on the big day, when these spiffed-up fathers wait expectantly for their dates, your throat may not be able to handle the lumps.

As a reporter and a photographer crouched expectantly in the bushes behind his Los Angeles home, his two wild ravens were refusing to cooperate with a photo shoot.

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

As a fan of the score myself, I waited expectantly for Dorothy’s final number, “Home.”

Circumspect Adam, that big lug, plays second fiddle, gazing listlessly but expectantly at his companion — not unlike we are.