"expectation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It's very early days, but there's at least an air of hopeful expectation in Burma.
- His name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation.
- Unlike women whose fathers were absent, remote or abusive, these women tend to view men with realistic yet hopeful expectations, experts say.
- If in that area you are attacked in spite of our hopeful expectations, pull back at once.
- Donna retreated from the steps, a look of hopeful expectation on her face.
- The living waited in hopeful expectation, longing to leave.
- The high idealism of the war years still reigned, and mission work seemed to fit clearly with hopeful expectations for international democracy.
- The general tone of the office is one of penitence, tempered by an attitude of hopeful expectation.
- Her husband sat beside the bed, unfolding his handkerchief in hopeful expectation of a tear, and craving damnably for a smoke.
- A bowl of New England clam chowder bore out our hopeful expectations.
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