look ahead to
Verb
Meaning
look ahead to (third-person singular simple present looks ahead to, present participle looking ahead to, simple past and past participle looked ahead to)
To plan for the future; to look forward to something; to be excited for something happening in the future.
Synonyms
Examples
We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.