Expect

//ɪkˈspɛkt//

"Expect" in a Sentence (26 examples)

One can't expect everything from schools.

You can't expect me to always think of everything!

Don't expect others to think for you!

Nowadays we want our children to make their own decisions, but we expect those decisions to please us.

I don't expect anything from you.

We have to expect the worst.

You can't expect much of him.

If you study earnestly, you can expect to pass the exam.

I expect your help.

I expect you to be punctual.

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when you least expect it

I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.

The hostage is expected to be released later today.

I expect it'll rain this weekend, but I hope it won't.

I did not expect you'd come before I asked you to, but do expect you to apologize for it.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

And temperatures are expected to keep rising.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.

My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.

You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.

We are expecting our third in June.

“You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”

Let's in, and there expect their coming.

The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.

I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call

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