Example sentences for: anticipating

How can you use “anticipating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even before the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 6 percent last week, market watchers were anticipating a dip in the market--the so-called "October curse."

  • Anticipating this strategy, Congress passed the "Defense of Marriage Act" in 1996, declaring that states would not be compelled to recognize same-sex unions performed elsewhere.

  • At that point, Hanjour and Hazmi vacated their apartment and started driving east, anticipating the arrival of the "muscle hijackers"-the operatives who would storm the cockpits and control the passengers.

  • Anticipating our contemporary Plain English laws, strong voices were raised in the 17th century against the use of foreign tongues as a kind of black art to mystify the uneducated and cheat them of their rights.

  • One al Qaeda intelligence report warned that something "very, very, very, very" big was about to happen, and most of Bin Ladin's network was reportedly anticipating the attack.


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