How To Use Expectant In A Sentence
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They crowded around me and watched me expectantly, as if I would spill my darkest, most revealing secrets.
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He dips his chin, and just as an expectant gasp ripples through the crowd, Eddie launches himself over the wall into a bramble of wild roses.
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Nutritional research also suggests that an expectant mother can influence her sprog's future food preferences by the dietary choices she made during pregnancy.
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Smoking by expectant mothers may increase the chances of brain damage in their babies.
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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It was once Britain's default shopping destination for expectant mums and doting grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pressure on England today will not be provided by Andorra but their own expectant fans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anything that helps expectant mothers to be less afraid of the pain and trauma of childbirth can only be a good thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chosen 22 walked out into the most expectant atmosphere Lansdowne Road has witnessed in years, the feverish mood of the moment intensified by rival national anthems sung with exceptional fervour.
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And then he just stands there, with his expectant face, expecting extra reward just for doing his job.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
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Philip paced the floor, a typically nervous expectant father.
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They all recognized him when he came closer, and they watched him with that peculiar concertedness which seizes upon an expectant company, until he dismounted at the corral gates and came toward them.
The Range Boss
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For a week after that visit her lights had failed to go on — darkness brooded out into the areaway, seemed to grope blindly in at his expectant, uncurtained window.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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Now I am on tenterhooks and pacing the ops block like an expectant father.
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As with any expectant new band, one of the first decisions that had to be made was to choose a catchy name.
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‘Get big or get out’ is a communication and hardly expectant of a reply.
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The group of gossiping girls looked on warily, expectantly, waiting for her to upchuck all over her showy dress, but she didn't.
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Now they are releasing a series of books guaranteed to provide all the information expectant parents need.
The Sun
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Standing over the Sunday roast with all those expectant faces is my favourite moment of the week.
The Sun
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The traditional objection was made that it might be snowing heavily on Christmas Eve and early closing would ensure that staff could safely travel home to their excited and expectant children.
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The expectant father stopped to say a quick prayer before boarding a helicopter for the first time.
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She could not pick out a single word from the speedy way the bright folk spoke, but she could guess what they meant by the way they were plucking at her harp and looking at her expectantly.
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Almost like a hospital with a maternity ward for expectant mothers, the brooder room also houses sick and injured birds and has a recovery room.
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It is an experience that is bound up with the character and lifestyle of the expectant mother.
Caring for your Unborn Child
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Tell those two old 'rummies' to get their time and get out of here," he said, turning again and looking expectantly at McGregor.
Marching Men
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The expectant mothers that Amy had encountered positively glowed with pride.
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Doctors told the expectant mother that she had a tummy bug and a slight whiplash.
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My half Shire half Quarter Horse warmblood stood with his head over his stall door, looking at me expectantly.
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The priests and the policemen stopped before the crowd of expectant men and surveyed them, as they did every morning.
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Second place is there to fight for, the fans are very expectant here.
The Sun
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Private adoption agencies' touts hunted for vulnerable, expectant families who already had one or two daughters.
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The old crossing-sweeper was already there, to receive his penny; and the orange-woman, expectant, sold her apex orange to him for a silver thripenny bit as his before-breakfast while awaiting the more dignified cunctation of his auguster spouse.
Pirate Gold
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And it gives expectant parents a tantalising glimpse of their tiny bundles of joy.
The Sun
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He dismissed as an excuse the fear that athletes could face too much pressure from an expectant home crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless the gall bladder is calcified or the patient has other risk factors, asymptomatic gallstones may be managed expectantly.
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I looked from face to expectant face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze.
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The test result shows that SoftSwitch system designed in the paper can execute required Centrex service accurately, and reaches the expectant design requirements.
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'Thank God,' Jody Burgess exclaimed, standing up, coming around the bed with a kind of buoyantly expectant expression and both arms outstretched.
The Hearing
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Planting his case on the table, he looked at us expectantly.
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Tiptoeing across the living room, Joyce took her stand by the table and called timidly, expectantly and awesomely:
Joyce of the North Woods
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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.
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He walked straight past his expectant friend, dipped his good hand into one of his pockets and sat down, feasting on a large slab of cheese.
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Expectant mums can expect the skin all over their body to change.
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Josh finished, and then they were all looking at me, expectant and excited.
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Flat upon the ground, the small army concentred on the igloo, and behind, deliciously expectant, crouched many women and children, come out to witness the murder.
THE SUNLANDERS
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But as Richmond whispered "Jackson's coming" and waited expectantly for his lightning attack to flash, there was something ominous in Ewell's choice of the word "disappointed.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
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There were smug grins, expectant smiles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Best Growth: On Bones' Season 7 premiere, new couple and expectant parents Booth and Brennan tire of splitting time between their respective homes, but they quibble over where they will ultimately cohabitate.
Top Moments: Revenge's Double Trouble and Conan's Reformed Bear... Or Not
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His sleeves had been rolled up to his elbows, and he stared at me expectantly.
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This item explores if expectant fathers perceived their own fathers as anxious in their paternal role.
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Here, museum officials watch expectantly as a cow examines a recently acquired landscape painting with bovine staffage.
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The first Magdalen asylums of the 1800s were smallish ventures offering prostitutes, expectant or post-pregnancy single mothers, and ‘compromised’ girls the option of temporary refuge and moral ‘rehabilitation.’
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she looked at him expectantly
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Around them expectant parents were taking beaming selfies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The big moment arrived, as Santa was heralded into the room and conducted a sing-along with all the expectant wide-eyed crowd.
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Expectant mothers can register at any maternity or child welfare centre.
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As he shimmies under the trunk, he looks down to see two alligators waiting expectantly below.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asha waited expectantly, with a trace of fear and curiosity, her heartbeat quickening slightly at the prospect.
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I looked at him again, remembered his expectant look, the faith in my gitter-dun abilities and I breathed.
#Best09: Moment of Peace « Bodhicitta
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Wayward-looking tee shots were greeted with expectant murmurs of approval which turned into disappointed applause if the ball ended up on the green.
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They always thought it was feed time if the light went on and would scramble up expectantly and start pawing and whinnying.
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Dexter looked up expectantly, a loop of ash dangling from the end of the cigarette he had lit in her absence.
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Two Japanese yard-boys were trimming hibiscus, a third was engaged expertly with the long hedge of night-blooming cereus that was shortly expectant of unfolding in its mysterious night-bloom.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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She looked up at him expectantly, her mouth open, the bottom lip raised, almost brutal in what it implied.
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Some peddling attorney, however, had ‘unadvisedly’ made its reversion expectant on the death of Morris.
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At midnight the doors were opened to the expectant crowd.
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Alice, the head nurse, wore her usual grim expression and young Lily stood at the foot of the bed with wide, expectant eyes.
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That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes.
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The results indicated that expectant fathers' family of origin factors are related to attitudes about father involvement.
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I fold my hands in front of me and stand expectantly, rocking back and forth on my heels - covered by lace-up wedges.
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But in the same sale a Munnings portrait of a lady on horseback from around 1920 was sold for £860,500, and "The Start" (1940s-1950s), depicting a large field of expectant horses with one prancing out of line, sold for £468,500.
Going to the Races, in Art
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The nomads were standing with their camels, the animals looking as expectant as their owners.
Somewhere East of Life
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Knowing he was about to appear, an expectant hush fell over the huge crowd around the green.
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Such girdles, too, like the binding fiber with which a camisk is usually secured on a girl, may be used to bind her. âIt is to be mine, is it not? â asked Phoebe, eagerly, expectantly, hopefully.
Magicians of Gor
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Dramatic pause, as your audience looks up expectantly from their figgy pudding.
Jared Bernstein: Pesky Brother-in-Law: Christmas Edition
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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.
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When expectant faces all along the table turned towards him, he sighed and raised a hand to his temple.
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Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of.
The Haunted Bookshop
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He dried up there abruptly, looking expectant, so I said that after such a thrilling tale I was surprised that five masked chaps with stilettoes hadn't leaped on him in the hall.
Watershed
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Both airlines and insurance companies impose restrictions on expectant mothers.
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The sight of their expectant little faces is making me crumble, and nobody has yet sung a note.
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Then (in Roger's vision) he could see the garlanded bibliopole turning to the expectant audience, giving his trailing gown a deft rearward kick as the ladies do on the stage, and uttering, without hesitation or embarrassment, with due interpolation of graceful pleasantry, that learned and unlaboured discourse on the delights of bookishness that he had often dreamed of.
The Haunted Bookshop
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Where the causeway swept up from the street to the gate of the castle, the beggars who followed the king's camp had taken up new stations, hopeful and expectant, for the king's justiciar, Bishop Robert of Salisbury, had arrived to join his master, and brought a train of wealthy and important clerics with him.
One Corpse Too Many
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And they will all be waiting expectantly, not just for the dollops of neighbourhood gossip that is served up in such places.
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She also told expectant mothers that a toothache is a frequent sign of pregnancy, and that they should expect to loose one tooth for every child they bring into the world.
Archive 2006-11-01
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When studying testosterone, Storey found that it dropped in new and expectant fathers - by as much as 33 percent.
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She looked up at him expectantly, her mouth open, the bottom lip raised, almost brutal in what it implied.
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Mr McGeehan said a minority of expectant mothers wanted to give birth at home.
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The expectant crowd was confused - was this really the new world champion they had so excitedly looked forward to seeing?
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When sixteen years old he became a cleric (an expectant for a canonicate) at the cathedral of Würzburg, and in 1625 at that of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The survey also showed that 35% of expectant mothers admired celebrities who wore tight tops during pregnancy.
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She helps adults, including expectant parents, find ways to repair the traumas they may have suffered as children.
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The Colonel glared expectantly at the damp mob, trying to pinpoint the bad apple.
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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.
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I sampled my mushrooms expectantly, anticipating an explosion of subtle flavours.
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Expectant mums will continue to have their babies at hospitals near to their homes.
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Weasel turned and grinned expectantly at his companion, who grunted and handed over a coin from his pouch.
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Christine undid the top three buttons of her blouse, pulling her collar back to reveal the nape of her neck, and looked at Bill expectantly.
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To tumble over the edge would have been tantamount to toppling into the jaws of an expectant shark, and getting "scrunched" between no less than six rows of sharp teeth.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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After long and wearied deliberations extending over whole weeks, and while a nation's anxious eyes, hopeful and expectant, were rivetted upon them, they agreed upon a political catholicon -- one-sided, as usual, and unjust to the South.
Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,
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There are always at this city a large number of expectants of office of high grade awaiting their actual appointments.
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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.
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The nomads were standing with their camels, the animals looking as expectant as their owners.
Somewhere East of Life
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So dearly do we love our own voice that we cannot bear to hear it mixed with that of others -- perhaps drowned; and then our bashfulness tongue-ties us in the hush expectant of our "golden opinions," when all eyes are turned to the speechless "old man eloquent," and you might hear a tangle dishevelling itself in Neæra's hair.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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He looked at her expectantly but she didn't volunteer any more information.
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There was an expectant atmosphere front-of-house.
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There are no randomized prospective studies available comparing expectant management to early surgical intervention.
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Carrie turned to me with an expectant look on her face, her steely blue eyes looking directly at me.
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Delighted at this unexpected commission, she thanked him with smiles for the office; and as she hastened down stairs to chear the poor expectant with the welcome intelligence, she framed a thousand excuses for the part he had hitherto acted, and without any difficulty, persuaded herself he began to see the faults of his conduct, and to meditate a reformation.
Cecilia
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After the lunch interval the West Indies began their reply backed by an expectant crowd.
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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.
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The chef faced his brother with an expression partly perplexed and partly expectant, as though he might know what was coming.
The Chef’s Apprentice
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A story about the birth of quintuplets shouldn't send all expectant couples scurrying to buy 5 cribs.
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an expectant hush
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Living all his spare moments, as is frequently the case with expectant lovers, a day in advance of reality, and in a state of bestarred hallucination, it required nothing less than the name of his perpetual antagonist pronounced in a loud voice to call the youngest of Napoleon's generals away from the mental contemplation of his betrothed.
A Set of Six
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As thrilled parents looked on, 168 young men and women sat expectantly in the school's auditorium, their white coats folded over their arms, each waiting to be called to the front of the room and "cloaked" by a senior physician.
Physician, Humanize Thyself
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"It is vital that expectant mothers do not try to treat themselves with oils.
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Almost expectantly, he tried to press a button that would apparently shut off one of the propellers and send the boat careening violently off to the left.
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When our star takes the stage, he's greeted by an expectant hush.
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Around him sat expectant fans all of who are currently torn between patience and panic.
The Sun
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Free enterprise did not bring us the current economic disaster, although free enterprise has become a favorite whipping post of many left leaning expectants of an uncurbed welfare state, and of the current administration.
Obama's Not So Free Money
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The expectant young brides-to-be had their hearts set on a white wedding.
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I looked expectantly at the speedo, thinking the sheer luxury of the vehicle was masking the sensation of speed and acceleration that must surely be happening all around it.
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Russell watched expectantly while I changed into the clothes I had placed in the side pocket of the pack: thick jeans, a thermal undershirt, the flannel overshirt with the rip in the elbow that Kira had mended for me twice already.
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His form slowly turned and he looked at Jessica expectantly, she ran to him, through the mud, soaking her skirts and wetting her hair, then she held him.
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Children living in hostels have lost weight and expectant mothers are malnourished, the report also found.
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Just a skeleton midwifery staff heavily outnumbered by expectant mums.
The Sun
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My wife, being the expectant heiress and lay-rectoress, shall write to satisfy you that she is not suffering from my coercion.
The Pillars of the House, V1
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As he spoke; the poor expectant husband and father saw at a glance that his brilliant hopes were to be dashed to the ground and that his visitor was now there for the purpose of unsaying what on his former visit he had said.
Barchester Towers
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The respondents were asked to detail how many suspender belts they had, along with boned or unboned corsets and even "expectant mothers' corsets" that contained steel needed for the war effort.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Just a skeleton midwifery staff heavily outnumbered by expectant mums.
The Sun
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The music started up again and Helda and Sileda both stared up at William expectantly, batting their eyelashes.
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I am appalled by parents that smoke around their children, and even more so by mothers that smoke during pregnancy, and fathers that smoke around the expectant mothers.
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She stopped herself when she thought she saw the tiniest hint of a shadow cross David's expectant face.
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It was just before a big gala in Australia and we were both pacing the green room like expectant fathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was grinning with the expectant air of an ambitious toady as he balanced on his tiptoes.
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Public Dinners and Gold Watches given by never so many expectants for Office, will never elevate him any higher.
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Earlier this year, the Valley Center doctors had to deal with a request from a high-strung expectant mother who had been bedridden in Valley Hospital for a month to prevent premature birth.
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The expectant crowds waited for the king and his queen to pass.
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He smiled at his wife before diving into the cool water, surfacing and glancing at Emily expectantly.
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A great many expectant moms work right up until the day they go into labour.
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At this instant she beckoned to the bramin, who was previously seated, expectantly, in a corner of the garden.
Arabian nights. English
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Then we ran down the Illyrian coast and, with oars at full speed, sail bellying with a powerful southwester, rounded the Italian peninsula with a strong wind for Sicilia and the Tyrrhenian Sea, where we ran into a small flotilla of black-sailed ships expectantly lying in wait for us.
The Skrayling Tree
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A cheap sound system pumped out drum and bass as a sparse yet expectant crowd gathered.
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Expectant youngsters caught handfuls of kitchels at the Harwich's historic mayor-making ceremony.
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If we undertake to judge for ourselves, whatever damage we sustain, our recompence is in our own hands; but if we be, as we ought to be, humble appellants and patient expectants, we shall find, to our comfort, there is one that judgeth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Dexter looked up expectantly, a loop of ash dangling from the end of the cigarette he had lit in her absence.
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It's exciting watching the family crowd around the expectant mother in some sort of ancient protection ritual.
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A sudden roar came from the expectant crowd.
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He was sitting in the middle of the pavement, with his twinkling eyes staring at me expectantly.
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A sudden roar came from the expectant crowd.
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The jays were going cuckoo over the Cheezie Nuggies, most definitely savoring the zesty cheddary richness, scurrying back to their nests to regurgitate from their crops their loads of dull little seeds and romping expectantly back to my windowsill for a fresh new load of Nug-gies.
Shampoo Planet
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We aim to provide full maternity care for local expectant mothers who wish to give birth at our hospital.
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The crowds sat expectant and hushed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The expectant crowds waited for the king and his queen to pass.
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Just now I decided to take a quick look on google and see if any other expectant fathers are writing blogs.
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Philip paced the floor, a typically nervous expectant father.
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I have an ambitious chairman and expectant fans to satisfy as well as my own hopes.
The Sun
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His charming ugly face was in repose a little gloomy, not thoughtful so much as expectant, dreamy perhaps but also very practical and unidealistic.
The Dark Forest
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In especially well-staffed temples, robed priests guarded the linga and stared expectantly at the tourists.
The Apparition
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I want to provide comfort and support to the expectant mother throughout the entire pregnancy.
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Whether or not to have amniocentesis—or a related test called chorionic villus sampling—is a difficult decision for many expectant parents.
To amnio or not to amnio? New test can provide clearer answer for moms-to-be
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Each morning of their journey dawned grey, deadly quiet, and expectant.
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Just a skeleton midwifery staff heavily outnumbered by expectant mums.
The Sun
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The last three days I have felt like an expectant father and to win is fantastic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Have in the banality of the life how much solitary of you, I, there will be how much persist expectantly.
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The climb is brilliant and expectant, long and gentle, angled up the steepness to the edge of Bransdale.
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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.
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Expectant mothers would rather have their babies at home than travel to Colchester.
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It is presented to expectant women through hospital scan units and antenatal clinics.
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The first Magdalen asylums of the 1800s were smallish ventures offering prostitutes, expectant or post-pregnancy single mothers, and ‘compromised’ girls the option of temporary refuge and moral ‘rehabilitation.’
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We have significantly modernised our skills and our equipment to meet the demands of today's society and of a more expectant public.
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The same holds true onstage, where she entertained large crowds of expectant fans during a month-long, consistently sold-out U.S. tour.
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Breathing is important for the expectant mother.
Caring for your Unborn Child
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Since the collapse of the treason trials radicals had been expectant of progress.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The silence was reverent, expectant, verging on anxious.
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Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through
The French Revolution
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Standing before an expectant audience of French speakers with nothing but a few pitiful phrases and a lot of arm-waving to offer, the whole idea now appears vraiment merde.
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The watchman looked at me expectantly so of course I had to say how nice it was and also donate five rupees.
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There was an expectant buzz from the crowd whenever he was in possession and he was desperately close to scoring earlier, with what would have been a magnificent goal midway through the first half.
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But they are an expectant crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Expectant mothers were also treated with a cocktail of zidovudine and didanosine from week 36 of their pregnancies until one week after delivery.
Periscope
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Every nude scene is intercut with shots of a slobbering, googly-eyed principal and his equally expectant sidekick.
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There was much chatter, much nodding, then an expectant silence as the interpreter translated.
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Its five salesmen were waiting expectantly behind the counter.
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For more than ten years, I have been helping expectant families prepare for birth and early parenting.
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Hence only the supercilious will be the ones who are expectantly offended.
*SUSAN LOONE's Blog*
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The three remaining spunkie guides hovered expectantly before the boy.
Conqueror's Moon
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The bike wobbled to a stop as she applied the brakes, and she favored Eric with a wide expectant smile.
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Planting his case on the table, he looked at us expectantly.
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An interactive forum led by a male facilitator allowed expectant fathers to openly and honestly discuss issues of birth and fatherhood.
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Women who needed treatment were given the choice of expectant management or surgical evacuation of retained products of conception under general anaesthesia.
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Mother eyed Jim with an eager, expectant smile.
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A hushed, expectant silence fell from upstairs in the gallery, and then we began.
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Approach the throne of God with an open, expectant heart.
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There were smug grins, expectant smiles.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was once Britain's default shopping destination for expectant mums and doting grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Williams thanked everybody for their participation, before he announced the winners of the £25 prizes to the expectant crowd.