Under their expectant eyes, the hatch started opening slowly towards the inside, while a faint hiss of air escaping from inside could be heard through their spacesuits’ microphones

EXPECTANTLY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

After turning her attention to the horizon, lined with coconut trees, and watching it for long in fascination, she interested herself in the vastness of the Godavari, and felt that the wavy currents of its bluish green waters synchronized with the romantic beats of her expectant heart They were expectant, fearful, and profoundly affected by a certain feeling of detachment growing out of the Master's sudden change of tactics, coupled with his instruction that they were to engage in no public teaching throughout this Passover week If all that jewellery is here, the gold can't be far away," he muttered, his eyes wide open and expectant as he roamed through the small caves searching for signs of the greatest treasure of all the Romanov goldAll heads turned as her colleague’s focused on the beauty, their faces expectant and hungry for a titillating personal disclosure However, raising Rau's hopes, as some literary luminaries projected themselves as Man Fridays of the budding authors; he became expectant and felt the world of writing was not all that rough

EXPECTANT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

Doors opened and a straggle of people appeared from various directions assembling on the periphery of the machine, curious and expectantAngela was not going to be one of those women who carried gracefully; an expectant mother s who “glowed” through the entire process

expectant in a sentence | Sentence examples by Cambridge expectant in a sentence | Sentence examples by Cambridge

expectant mother/father/parent used to describe somebody who is going to have a baby soon or become a father

Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts but above all let us be expectant because that which is promised to us shall come