How to Use anticipate in a Sentence

anticipate

verb

• 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
• Lynch learned fast to anticipate passes or handoffs and take the best route to the football.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
• Stick to the middle of the saws, and try to anticipate which direction the next one is tilting.
  — Louryn Strampe, Wired, 31 Oct. 2020
• The aim is to be proactive — to anticipate what moves the enemy might make.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• The lovers of this dish anticipate the spring when the ram’s testicles are at their biggest.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 13 June 2019
• 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
• But the player was about to ascend in ways that Meier did not anticipate.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
• People don’t anticipate the amount of time that can take.
  — David Walters, The Cut, 17 Oct. 2017
• The stress caused by the pandemic would lead them to anticipate an increase in heart attacks.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2020
• 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 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
• And why didn't Apple anticipate these types of abuse would happen in the first place?
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
• Good nurses can anticipate when a patient is about to crash.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The latest big miss has been its failure to anticipate this year’s surge in consumer prices.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 July 2021
• Hospitals use the case counts to anticipate when more people will need their care.
  — Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Everyone in the room has been anticipating this meal for weeks.
  — Bon Appetit, 26 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps the day is not far away when most of us may reasonably anticipate a hundred years of life.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• 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
• Today is a day that fans of self-driving cars have been anticipating for years.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 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
• In any case, doctors anticipate an uptick in cases there and elsewhere over the coming months.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Scientific American, 22 May 2020

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024