Sentence examples for expectation in the air from inspiring English sources

There is music to whip up enthusiasm and a sense of expectation in the air.

There was a distinct, low-throttle burn of expectation in the air around Bluewater shopping centre this morning.

There was expectation in the air, like you feel if you're the first person to arrive at a party.

UNDER the big top, even in the warm, dim hours before a show, before the crowds arrive, expectation hangs in the air.

Nevertheless, there will always lurk, around a corner in a pocket of our knowledge of the odds, an indefensible hope, and this was one of the times, which you now and then find in sports, when a density of expectation hangs in the air and plucks an event out of the future.

Take a walk through Nigeria's commercial capital and expectation is heavy in the air.

We often forget how close the revolutionaries were to the Great Awakening of the 1730s and '40s, when revival meetings were held across the colonies and apocalyptic expectation hung heavy in the air.

"A lot of negative expectations are now in the air," said Armínio Fraga, the president of the central bank of Brazil, which has been hit the hardest by the fallout from Argentina.

The refugees are steeped in malaise and expectation, and the air is charged with the contained rage of young men killing time, plotting escape.

Though Mr. Akhtar is a gifted writer, he can occasionally lapse into overly self-conscious or portentous phrasings: "Like the odor of masala lingering along our hallways, the expectation of unhappiness hovered in the air we breathed," he writes at one point.

This time, however, expectation hovered in the steamy air.