How to Use anticipate in a Sentence

anticipate

verb
Definition of anticipatenext
Synonyms for anticipatenext
  • The organizers of the fair anticipate a large crowd.
  • The cost turned out to be higher than anticipated.
  • I did not anticipate having to pay for your ticket.
  • The author anticipated objections to his theory.
  • He eagerly anticipated her arrival.
  • This set of awards were some of the most anticipated of the night.
    — Lauren Ballantyne, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Chiefs may be road-weary in anticipating a week-three home game against the Ravens.
    — Skip Snow, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Stick to the middle of the saws, and try to anticipate which direction the next one is tilting.
    — Louryn Strampe, Wired, 31 Oct. 2020
  • But what Dwight did not anticipate was the knife stuck in his back from a member of his own pre-merge tribe.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Lynch learned fast to anticipate passes or handoffs and take the best route to the football.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
  • When the ball dropped at midnight to kick off a new year and decade, no one could have anticipated what the year was about to bring.
    — James Barrett, Redbook, 6 Apr. 2020
  • And why didn't Apple anticipate these types of abuse would happen in the first place?
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The aim is to be proactive — to anticipate what moves the enemy might make.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • But the player was about to ascend in ways that Meier did not anticipate.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The closeness to the game provides some factors that the team also didn’t anticipate at first.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The port anticipates collecting $5.8 million in net lease revenue over the life of the 10-year lease.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The lovers of this dish anticipate the spring when the ram’s testicles are at their biggest.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 13 June 2019
  • Once a player learns to suppress the startle reflex, the next step is to anticipate where a pitch might hit him.
    — Matt Martell, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • But getting the feelings out there will give you both a chance to anticipate them in your planning.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2018
  • Monday's was the sixth of what is anticipated to be 10 test fires.
    — Rebecca Santana, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018
  • Orlea doesn’t anticipate the city will purchase any land for new park space over the five years the plan will cover.
    — Carissa D. Lamkahouan, Houston Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2019
  • People don’t anticipate the amount of time that can take.
    — David Walters, The Cut, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The latest big miss has been its failure to anticipate this year’s surge in consumer prices.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 July 2021
  • The stress caused by the pandemic would lead them to anticipate an increase in heart attacks.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Real estate agents anticipate house hunters will ramp up their efforts over the next few months to buy a home.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But those rates have been coming down as banks began anticipating a round of rate cuts by the Fed.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Two-thirds of these schools anticipate a boost of at least 4% for one or more of their summer periods.
    — Samuel Zwickel, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2020
  • All of that can change Monday, in a matchup long anticipated.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2018
  • There was something to anticipate and to talk about besides all that these times were taking away from us.
    — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Levis didn’t anticipate a full Kroger Field, nor a rowdy crowd.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2022

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