How to use "expectation" in a sentence

There was electricity in the air, a feeling of triumph, a nervous expectation of success.

You can see the quiet expectation, the officers watching, the gunners waiting with their horses, the groups of local people standing as near as they were allowed, the ambulances and hospital tents with the burnt and wounded from Weybridge

But it was not the stillness of death - it was the stillness of expectation