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EXPECTANT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
All heads turned as her colleague’s focused on the beauty, their faces expectant and hungry for a titillating personal disclosure I took him for a drive in the afternoon, after having vainly urged him to rest, and while he told me about his horses, and his regiment, and his brother officers, in what at last grew to be a decidedly intermittent prattle, I amused myself by wondering what he would say if I suddenly began to hold forth on the themes I love best, and insist that he should note the beauty of the trees as they stood that afternoon expectant, with all their little buds only waiting for the one warm shower to burst into the glory of young summer
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But expectant faith will ever keep the hope-door of man's soul open for the entrance of the eternal spiritual realities of the divine values of the worlds beyond Under their expectant eyes, the hatch started opening slowly towards the inside, while a faint hiss of air escaping from inside could be heard through their spacesuits’ microphones Leaning forward with his elbows on the table, the Pastor looked around at expectant faces before saying, “We know Arakiel claims the Golan Heights is very important to the Uronian mission This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: scarce and scarcely. Improve your English with Collins. expectant mother/father/parent used to describe somebody who is going to have a baby soon or become a father
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Doors opened and a straggle of people appeared from various directions assembling on the periphery of the machine, curious and expectant Being comformicated by reward-based game learning and living, we will become not only more wanting of reward and less content with self-creation, but also more expectant of reward, no matter how varied its delivery method might be to maintain our nunique span of focus Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts but above all let us be expectant because that which is promised to us shall comeEach noticed the other’s expectant glances to the telephone, yet they held their tongues, afraid even to consider the possibilities Like the first hint of a distant thunderstorm, the air was vibrant and expectant with distant concussions, so faint that we could only feel them This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: produce and product. Improve your English with Collins. Many of the cures effected by Jesus in connection with his ministry in behalf of Elman's patients did, indeed, appear to resemble the working of miracles, but we were instructed that they were only just such transformations of mind and spirit as may occur in the experience of expectant and faith-dominated persons who are under the immediate and inspirational influence of a strong, positive, and beneficent personality whose ministry banishes fear and destroys anxiety
EXPECTANTLY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Then I repeated the story about the expectant parson, adding to my guilt by laying stress on the inevitability of the expedition owing to its having been planned weeks beforeThey were expectant, fearful, and profoundly affected by a certain feeling of detachment growing out of the Master's sudden change of tactics, coupled with his instruction that they were to engage in no public teaching throughout this Passover week
EXPECTANT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Georgie was looking for help with the management of her Quebec office and when she heard about Melissa's office experience she was anxious to see if the expectant mother could find time to help Nancy Laplante, followed by a few television cameramen and a small army of photographers, was going slowly down the line of expectant spectators, distributing cards and autographs and chatting with her fans, while a young woman that must have been hired by the Marvel Studios carried for her a box full of She-Hulk cards
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Following an expectant silence Sir Alex Clegg’s blank stare was broken by his eye movement as the lids came together one time then froze in their previous position