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How to use expectant in a sentence

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The 686 women with retained products of conception were given the choice of surgical evacuation of the uterus or expectant management.
As the adults and expectant children gathered out-side Kavanagh's Pub on Main Street there was an air of expectancy.
When expectant faces all along the table turned towards him, he sighed and raised a hand to his temple.
The big moment arrived, as Santa was heralded into the room and conducted a sing-along with all the expectant wide-eyed crowd.
Just don't tell him he's going out to face the world champions in front of an expectant home crowd in half an hour.
Knowing he was about to appear, an expectant hush fell over the huge crowd around the green.
The party was in full swing as they arrived, but there was a faint, expectant feeling among the guests as the royal party had not yet arrived.
Josh finished, and then they were all looking at me, expectant and excited.
Both airlines and insurance companies impose restrictions on expectant mothers.
After the lunch interval the West Indies began their reply backed by an expectant crowd.
If I was a best selling author about to pass such tripe off on my breathlessly expectant readers, I'd have been right there with her.
The priests and the policemen stopped before the crowd of expectant men and surveyed them, as they did every morning.
Sunday saw an expectant and knowledgeable crowd turn up for what was some of the best bowling seen for a long time.
There are nights when you can feel the va va voom in a theatre, busy with the buzz of expectant chatter and excited faces of all ages.
A cheap sound system pumped out drum and bass as a sparse yet expectant crowd gathered.
When expectant mothers voice such concerns to me, I gently encourage them to examine the issue logically.
Hours later, doctors rushed an expectant mother to a table, gave her a local anesthetic, and cut open her abdomen in a bid to save her baby.
It's exciting watching the family crowd around the expectant mother in some sort of ancient protection ritual.
Children living in hostels have lost weight and expectant mothers are malnourished, the report also found.
The expectant father stopped to say a quick prayer before boarding a helicopter for the first time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His face had a patient, expectant look, as if he waited for them to do something.
He is not to be a 'praiser of the past,' but a herald and expectant of a nobler future.
The birds, the insects even, all life seemed to crouch, hushed and expectant.
He paused, evidently expectant of laudatory corroboration from the secretary.
It was opened very quickly, as if by some one who was on the watch, expectant of an arrival.
She did not speak, however, but only listened with her thoughtful and expectant air.
Rusty was humble as ever, but there was an expectant look in his rotund face.
He presented to the grand inquisitor and the expectant duke two letters signed by the royal hand.
On the instant those at the table were keyed up and expectant, the servant was smugly pleased, and he was wallowing in mortification.
Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane.
All are expectant She wavers again, and steels herself to resolution.
We stepped into the summerhouse, now pretty dark, and waited expectant.
Or you could call him an expectant father hoping to establish a trust fund for his firstborn.
Meanwhile the hall of disputation was crowded with an expectant audience.
But it was in an expectant state, for the air was full of rumors of a new duel.
Whenever she passed him she cringed as if expectant of a blow.
We hastened to mount, Clara's eyes full of expectant frolic.
At Length her heart's desire must be drawing near to her expectant soul!
Then an expectant hush was shattered by the Royal Orchestra, which broke into an astonishing musical shindy.
Therefore a grant by an expectant heir, simpliciter, is void.
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