EXPECTANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expectantly mean? 

• EXPECTANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXPECTANTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an expectant manner

  Familiarity information: EXPECTANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPECTANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an expectant manner

Context example:

she looked at him expectantly

Pertainym:

expectant (marked by eager anticipation)

 Context examples 

We looked at each other expectantly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Both men looked expectantly at Mr. White, but that gentleman laughed and shrugged his shoulders.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, he cried, expectantly, what may it run to?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We all gazed expectantly at the closed door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I nodded my head, and she, having recovered herself, waited expectantly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ruth looked expectantly at Martin, as if waiting for him to change his judgment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They went upstairs to get ready while we three men stood there shuffling the hot pebbles with our feet. A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky. Gatsby started to speak, changed his mind, but not before Tom wheeled and faced him expectantly.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away. Wondering if he were sick I went over to find out—an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)