Words similar to anticipation

Example sentences for: anticipation

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

At last, he seemed ready to say something, and his fellow guests leant forward in anticipation.
Ordinarily this is such a happy sight - an image of the anticipation that we feel inside as the holiday season approaches once again.
Backlash, shmacklash ; The Blair Witch Project messed up my head more than anything since Night of the Living Dead (1968), so The Sixth Sense had me shivering in anticipation from its opening credits.
In anticipation of many program mergers or consolidations due to the reconfiguration of service areas for 2002, LSC, along with the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Management Information Exchange sponsored a "Making Mergers Work" workshop during the March ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference.
The 199-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average came amid anticipation of a quarter-point raise in short-term interest rates.