6 sentences with “anticipation”

In anticipation of gaining his own honour and wealth, Cortés later explored the Yucatán Peninsula.

But in anticipation of the moths' wiles, the bat has one last trick: a few random strokes of the wings, to bag the moths.

Just as there are a myriad of stressful - or "stress-relieving" - situations, so anticipation and imagination of such situations can work in the same way.

It should be noted, however, that delegates agreed that Polish and Czech nationalism had to be crushed because of German "racial" superiority, an early anticipation of the Germanic ethnocentrism that would eventually give rise to Nazism almost a century later.

Large numbers of both Confederate and state notes had found their way into the hands of speculators, who had bought them from hard-pressed veterans in the 1780s and paid a fraction of their face value in anticipation of redeeming them for full value at a later date.

As my flat-bottomed skiff plied the waters of the Ossabaw Sea, we all enjoyed in anticipation the excitement of knowing that our expedition would be one of those wonderful moments when good friends enjoy each other's company unreservedly; when time almost stands still.