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Example sentences for "anticipated"

Lexicographically close words:
antica; antiche; antichi; antichristian; anticipate; anticipates; anticipating; anticipation; anticipations; anticipative
  1. She intended to devote only a short time to the interview, which she anticipated with the satisfaction of the strong who are confident of victory.

  2. But the old man was not asleep, and had anticipated her.

  3. Plato anticipated conclusions which we are just beginning to reach when he said, "the office of the physician extends equally to the purification of mind and body.

  4. A little group of English and American thinkers, part philosophers, part poets, part rebels against the established order, anticipated trained students in their return upon the higher and more positive side of an older philosophy.

  5. He anticipated the method and supplied the material, but he either did not or could not popularize it.

  6. On reaching Nassau Lodge, the party anticipated some danger from Fergus O'Driscol's fire-arms.

  7. He hesitated, however, to inculpate Mogue, who certainly could not have anticipated or brought on the fog, which had occasioned them to wander for such a length of time among the mountains.

  8. As little boys requiring much medicine have anticipated you by noting in this world," observed Sir William.

  9. He said, that necessity was the most plausible pretext for breaking the spirit of the social compact, but the people of this country have anticipated that pretext.

  10. Much had been anticipated from the plan; a beginning had been made, and he thought it best to try it for such a length of time as would afford a fair experiment of what could be done.

  11. The gentleman has anticipated me in his motion; I am clearly in sentiment with him that the words ought to go out.

  12. I had never told her that I loved her, and was not sure whether such a daughter-in-law would suit my father; he had not anticipated my marrying a Frenchwoman, and I could do nothing without his consent.

  13. We may find comfort in this series, for we learn from it that in every infamy which we now deplore among ourselves we were anticipated by the French forty years ago.

  14. The whole of this sixth satire of Juvenal, in which the Gavarnian literature of all nations was anticipated and exhausted, is a tribute to woman's social importance in Rome.

  15. Art, humanizing art, has reached a development which a dreamer of Hogarth's day could not have anticipated for any period much short of the millennium; and not a development only, but a wide diffusion.

  16. Viviana's heart throbbed with delight at the anticipated meeting with her father; but she could not repress a feeling of anxiety at the distressing intelligence she had to impart to him.

  17. He was detained by the Earl of Salisbury's orders till the morning,--it being anticipated that before that time the other conspirators would be arrested.

  18. Casey had not uttered a word, but Braddock instinctively anticipated the charge.

  19. He forgot the anticipated joy of the moment before in contemplation of this significant proof of an understanding.

  20. To my great surprise and gratification, I found, after I had made this natural and certain correction, that I had been completely anticipated in it by Capell.

  21. In the change of 'they' to their I find I had been anticipated by Heath.

  22. This punctuation gives, I think, the sense of the poet; and I am happy to find I had been anticipated in it by Singer.

  23. I had been anticipated by Capell, Tyrwhitt, and Heath; so that it is certain.

  24. I had been anticipated by Hanmer in reading 'straightway' and 'my'.

  25. I think the true reading is lent, in which I had been anticipated by Collier's folio.

  26. I would read, "In grace to stand, in virtue go," in which I had been anticipated by Johnson.

  27. I read to for 'by,' in which I had been anticipated by Johnson, who was followed by Malone.

  28. If Mr. Gladstone's decision was to have the anticipated effect, Mr. Parnell must be made aware of it before the meeting of the Irish party (Nov.

  29. He was bent on bringing a revolutionary movement to what he confidently anticipated would be a good end; to allow a passing phase of that movement to divert him, would be to abandon his own foundations.

  30. Though his dedications are enough to kill the living, his anticipated monodies, on the other hand, must add considerably to the natural dread of death in such of his patrons as may be liable to common sense or to chronic diseases.

  31. When she retired, I watched their looks as I dismissed the screen, and every cheek thawed, and every nose reddened with the anticipated glow.

  32. He anticipated that he was about to be shaved, and in this was not disappointed.

  33. He wondered when an opportunity should arise which would enable him to commence his chivalrous operations; almost daily he anticipated instructions to the effect that Mrs. Leroux would be leaving for Paris immediately.

  34. Now, as the book ends with the anticipated death of Antiochus in 164 B.

  35. The situation is plainly that of the period during the later exile of Judah before the capture of Babylon by Cyrus in 538, as the horrors which the poet anticipated (xiii.

  36. This fine passage shows pretty clearly what was the general idea as to the nature of the anticipated kingdom of God.

  37. Later on Augustine anticipated subsequent Christian thought by maintaining that the atoning work of Jesus was part of an eternal purpose.

  38. Hamon reminds us, Molière anticipated Mr. Shaw in outraging the sentiment, for instance, which has gathered round the family.

  39. As I anticipated the possibility of hot work before all was done, I took the precaution to discard my dirk and to provide myself, in place thereof, with a ship's cutlass and a pair of loaded pistols.

  40. Captain Kane had informed him that the Abolitionists were "trying to get up a row"; but he had not anticipated that they would call upon him, and it was an unpleasant surprise when he saw who his visitors were.

  41. Mr. King had anticipated the possibility of such a question, and he replied: "I will tell you who your father was, if you will give a solemn promise never to ask a single question about your mother.

  42. She did not even think of the much-anticipated opera, until she heard from the street snatches of Norma, whistled or sung by the dispersing audience.

  43. This resolution was immediately acted upon; but the fates were unpropitious to Madame's anticipated visit to the lonely island.

  44. The cabman anticipated the appointed hour, bearing in mind the condition of the streets through which his horses had to toil.

  45. Even men who are not particularly civil to one another in Canada will cross each other’s path with pleasure when from home, and intimacies never anticipated are formed, and associations entered upon once thought impossible.

  46. With Major Honeywell's map of the region spread out on the deck of the bridge and the binoculars in hand Ned began the long anticipated search for the lost city.

  47. Ned and Alan were free to devote themselves wholly to the agreeable and long anticipated task of at last "getting ready.

  48. In spite of her depression, Natalie, who had not seen her new apartments, felt some curiosity about them, whilst De Chaulieu anticipated a triumph in exhibiting the elegant home he had prepared for her.

  49. The opening of the Salvator brewery in the suburbs of Munich, for its brief season of a month in the spring, assumes for the inhabitants the importance of a long anticipated holiday.

  50. But it is probable that Davidson would have even paid something over and above his ideas of equitable, for the pleasure of Zack Bunting's anticipated mortification at finding a rival mill set up in the neighbourhood.

  51. The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.

  52. The question was addressed to Bumble; but his wife anticipated the reply, by intimating that she was perfectly acquainted with it.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anticipated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    due; eventual; expected; foreseen; forthcoming; imminent; overdue; predictable; presumed; probable; promised; prospective