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The word "expectantly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a situation in which one is waiting in anticipation for something to happen. Example sentence: She stared expectantly at the door, waiting for news of her long lost brother.
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expectantly
adverb
In an expectant manner.
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The morgellons believers look expectantly at the indignant litigant.
The upshot may be to leave Mr Blair isolated.From A to ZEurope is now waiting expectantly to see how Mr Zapatero's anti-war, pro-European rhetoric translates into actual policy.
With a room full of bigwigs blinking expectantly, I began to introduce them off the top of my head, while still hunting with one hand for the crib sheet, which I was sure I had tucked into my notebook.
But this meant everyone ended up staring at the screen instead of listening to the debate, waiting expectantly for their own tweets to come up.
After the full length trailer leaked out of Comic Con a number of weeks ago and Reynolds teased that it would hit the internet very soon, fans have been expectantly waiting.
Suspiciously, no police presence was evident, although rumours circulated of riot vans waiting expectantly - and were not unfounded.
'Well?' he said, looking at me expectantly, 'Go on then.' I disappeared into the bathroom.
I used to go to parties with my best friend, Francine, and inwardly groaned as the boys looked up expectantly as they heard her name.
There is a palpable sense of anticipation at London's Liverpool Street Station at 6pm on a Friday as hundreds of weary commuters stare expectantly at the departures board.
Blank white signs, like the kind painted with house names, wait expectantly on a wooden shelf for words and pictures, while, in contrast, the room is decorated with posters (some framed) of naked pin-up girls, oddly uniform in their shades of oiled, orangey skin.
The downstairs dining room, its walls a startling blue, has its table laid expectantly, each place set with a plate bearing the image of one of Dickens's friends.
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