8 sentences with 'anticipated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word anticipated and other words derived from it.
• « Dante (1265 - 1321): Dante Alighieri, best remembered simply as Dante, was an important figure who anticipated the Renaissance rather than being alive for most of it. »
• « Similarly, although Da Vinci's anatomical work anticipated important developments in medicine, they were unknown during his own lifetime. »
• « However, radical elements in the National Assembly anticipated war and persuaded the Assembly to declare pre-emptive war on Austria in April 1792; Prussia soon joined in an alliance with Austria against France. »
• « Napoleon pursued the Russian army eastwards, fighting two actual battles (the second of which, the Battle of Borodino in August 1812, was extremely bloody), but never pinned down the Russians or received the Tsar's anticipated negotiations for surrender. »
• « Many felt that the war would settle nationalist rivalries once and for all, and almost no one anticipated a protracted war. »
• « Wilhelm II anticipated "a merry little war", and in France and Germany it was thought that the war would be over by Christmas. »
• « The Soviet Union and China provided arms and aid to the North Vietnamese, while the US anticipated its own (later) invasion by supporting the South. »
• « The hypersonic speeds anticipated for the X-30 will cause temperatures of more than 2,700 degrees in some parts of the aircraft, due to friction with the atmosphere. »