Example sentences for: anticipation

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

  • The row of giant black rectangles dominating puny pedestrians walking below ( Wall Street , 1915) inspired numerous social interpretations, but to our eyes it might look like an anticipation of obdurate monoliths by artists from Ad Reinhardt to Richard Serra.

  • Ten minutes before the movie ended, Chatterbox realized that the terror just wasn't going to happen, and his feelings of pleasurable anticipation quickly gave way to feelings of inadequacy.

  • surpluses and reduces debt held by the public (as in 1998 through 2000), Ricardian consumers would save less in anticipation of future tax cuts.

  • Many a politician has been enticed into self-enrichment by an appreciative audience, or the anticipation of one.

  • According to the Washington Post , the party's chairman-elect, Jack Gargan, is stockpiling weapons at his home in a remote part of the Florida Keys in anticipation of the global depression he thinks will result from a Y2K catastrophe.


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