Use expectancy in a sentence
Sentences ending with expectancy
- Now the air was heavy with the hush of suspense and expectancy. [5]
- Two days later, toward noon, Sandy began to show signs of excitement and feverish expectancy. [5]
- All schools have their great men, for whose advent into life the world is waiting in dumb expectancy. [6]
- We had a solemn stage-wait, now, for about twenty minutes--a thing I had counted on for effect; it is always good to let your audience have a chance to work up its expectancy. [5]
- At the time of which I have just been speaking the crowds in the galleries were gazing at the stage and the pit with rapt interest and expectancy. [5]
- They had a look of suppressed expectancy. [11]
- All at once I found myself awake, and filled with a shuddering expectancy. [5]
- They knew how highly Egyptian magic was esteemed throughout the empire; though their arts were in fact prohibited, each outdid the other in urgency, and not less in a style of dress which should excite curiosity and expectancy. [10]
- Behind her sat Anatole, and conscious of his proximity she experienced a frightened sense of expectancy. [2]
Short sentences using expectancy
- A mute expectancy reigned. [5]
More example sentences with the word expectancy in them
- All now stood with hands uplifted and eyes fixed in anxious expectancy on the curtain. [10]
- The reporters took their places and were all attention; the judge and lawyers were in their seats; the crowd swayed and pushed in eager expectancy, as the jury walked in and stood up in silence. [5]
- As time passed, the flush of expectancy waned; the heat was great, the waiting seemed endless. [11]
- Then followed the strangest silence--a silence of grisly suspense it was, too--waiting, expectancy, fear. [5]
- We sailed from Smyrna, in the wildest spirit of expectancy, for the chief feature, the grand goal of the expedition, was near at hand--we were approaching the Holy Land! [5]
- There was immediate silence in the court and intense expectancy noticeable all about. [5]
- She marvelled to see that it grew apace, and presently arose to look out upon a stillness like that of eternity: in the grey light the very leaves seemed to be holding their breath in expectancy of the thing that was to come. [9]
- With one hand pressed to her throbbing bosom, she watched each vehicle as it drove past with such intense expectancy that she paid no heed to Andreas's hint that they might now be able to make their way through the crowd. [10]
- In a fever of expectancy I sprang to the door, locked it, placed my back against it, and bent a watchful gaze upon my struggling master. [5]
- And, he had noticed, also, that when midnight struck, the patient turned his eyes toward the door, with an expectancy in them which presently grew into a longing but brightened into contentment as soon as the door opened and Laura appeared. [5]
- A true philosopher-a man of the world-would have known for what she was waiting with that vague, disordered expectancy and yearning; but there was no man of the world to watch and guide her this fateful summer, when things began to go irretrievably wrong. [11]
- Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man's room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at his door, which creaked slightly when opened. [2]
- She stood, indeed, hesitating for a moment in the doorway, her eyes softly alight, in the very pose of expectancy that such a picture suggested. [9]
- She had a gloomy expectancy of untoward circumstances, and with it a keen-edged curiosity to watch developments. [13]
- Heavy clouds had gathered in the sky, the light had deepened to amethyst, the valley was still, swooning with expectancy, louder and louder the thunder rolled from behind the distant hills, and presently a veil descended to hide them from our view. [9]
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