How To Use Expect In A Sentence

Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a few months.
The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games

The carbonation is a little heavier than what I normally expect in a stout, but not unpleasantly so. Miasmatic Review
A lot of teachers expect the situation to worsen over the next few years.
It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
They men weren't bored, as they'd expected, and were usually the heartiest laughers.
The cash raising was not unexpected and allows a few more shareholders on board. Times, Sunday Times
I expect him to win the rematch. The Sun
There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
The argument behind x is not quantitative, and we do not have an expression for its expected value under a null isolation model.
Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
So in terms of home furnishing it is expected to have curtain, bedspreads, cushion covers etc.
Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home. Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
The temperature is not expected to reach the 20 degree mark in the next few days.
One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
I expected him to smile in response but he glowered at me.
Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
The styles are simple, with set-in shoulders, pared-down forms and the type of finish you might expect from ready-to-wear. When Just Any Old Lycra Won't Do
Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy.
Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
Though most men are physically stronger than most women, it is women who are expected routinely to carry heavy loads.
The figure is expected to double with legal costs and more court battles. The Sun
Service is impeccable, as one would expect from a five-star hotel.
All this seems to contradict the expectation of the manipulation theorists.
After being dropped in a club to give people a taste of what to expect, it has been spun on decks uncontrollably ever since.
Lia was looking around her shoulder, as if she was expecting a stampede of wild animals to come charging down the corner.
Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
But we should not expect our troops to go on doing this indefinitely.
Until you awaken this feeling, you should not expect the affirmation to work.
It is expected that the roads will be shut until at least 4pm today and that there will be major traffic congestion.
Is it unreasonable to expect her to offer to split the bill? Times, Sunday Times
For a variety of reasons, the first quarter of 2017 is expected to see a huge volume of debt issuance. Times, Sunday Times
An official announcement of their plans is expected to follow early in the New Year. The Sun
In a downward inflation trend, salary expectations lag the decreases in inflation.
And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
Brad Murphy on Sep 14, 2008 one more thing people, stop affiliating this with steve carrell. kevin james has his own style and this video shows none of it so dont expect this movie to be at all like this trailer. he does his own thing, not imitate steve carrell Unfunny Mall Cop Viral Video with Kevin James « FirstShowing.net
"It is expected that commercial banks will respond by lowering their lending base rates, " he explained.
Soon after his announcement the House passed the bill, 328-101, and the Senate was expected to approve it Thursday.
The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected. Muffins and Mayhem
it was an easier problem than I expected
What is the common factor of unexpected packages in a pear tree? Times, Sunday Times
Haven't seen remake, so I think my perceptions of the Wenders flick were relatively uncolored by expectations of what I thought it was ‘supposed to’ be about.
He remembers his shock in the infant class when he was expected to work with the tiniest ration of clay he had ever seen.
The deal is expected to more than treble its production next year, creating enhanced cashflow to fund exploration in other oil provinces.
The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations.
Dole is now expected to tap a new source of campaign financing: the Republican National Committee.
He had the strength and power; he meant to bear rule over others and he expected tributes from them.
Thus the expectations regarding the strength of sexual selection for polygyny, polyandry, and monogamy are fairly simple.
But the matron still expected me to work and I was forced to hop around the wards tending to my patients.
Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
The council's housing panel is expected to refer a 3.88 per cent rent rise to the authority's ruling executive for approval when it meets next Monday.
These build and swell into clouds, suddenly breaking apart and dispersing unexpectedly.
As the days and games tick by, perhaps they will implode under the pressure of expectation. Times, Sunday Times
I would expect the government to fight a lawsuit trying to prevent something like this, just as I would expect a leg to bounce up when its patellar reflex is hit with a tendon hammer. Matt Kane: The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable
The cabin crews have balloted for industrial action and a massive ‘yes’ vote is expected.
The part that you don't expect is the yellow flavoring on the interior called "lupulin" which is where the bitter for the beer comes from. TreeHugger
When a firm buys a new machine, it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost.
With longer life expectancy it is inevitable that less will be passed on to the next generation. Times, Sunday Times
Expect original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to not slash spending in customer-facing systems.
Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
After too much airtime is devoted to the quartet's training, the contest itself throws up an unexpected hero. Times, Sunday Times
Sir Stuart expected 240 men to join the priesthood, plus around 220 women.
Where we find questionable practices in sales or complaint handling, firms can expect that we will take action. Times, Sunday Times
The questions were evidently unexpected to the slow-witted spokesman, who instantly found himself tongue-tied.
Given the extremely backward state of Polish agriculture, its small farming businesses are expected to die like flies.
Huge crowds are expected to file past the coffin, which will be guarded by a contingent of Gentlemen at Arms and Yeoman of the Guard.
They didn't expect that until 2020, so that number makes them ecstatic.
'Was it what you expected?' 'Yes, definitely.'
I expect comics to come and be prepared and I expect them not to stand around chinwagging with each other while people are onstage working.
The crowd whooped and hollered at the unexpected entertainment.
When I arrived, I had the sensation that she had been expecting me.
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well
The Popular Party led by Prime Minister José Maria Aznar is expected to win Sunday's general election although a poll taken a week ago showed the Socialists closing the gap.
Richmond with the 'crammer' who was expected to do great things for Chatterbox, 1905.
'I knew a case once where an heir who expected a large sum of money was bequeathed a family Bible, which he threw into the fire, learning afterwards, to his dismay, that it contained many thousands of pounds in Bank of England notes, the object of the devisor being to induce the legatee to read the good Book or suffer through the neglect of it.' The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
I'll write so that he may know when to expect us.
More than 2.5 million vacationers are expected to enjoy a cruise of less than seven days on some 1,500 sailings this year.
Employees who opt for the scheme will be expected to revert to their former employment contract once their children reach 14.
This text discusses this system to expect to be in the implement circumstance of Sichuan by Manchu Dynasty. article is divided into three parts.
You didn't really expect her to be on time, did you? A leopard can't change its spots.
Early settlement discounts will vary from one supplier to another, but you can usually expect to obtain a maximum of 5 per cent off the total purchasing price.
Workers in hierarchical workplaces cannot reasonably be expected to identify themselves if their opinions might touch upon their workplaces -- that's a disciplinary issue for most workers & most employers. Who Are You People? « PubliCola
Drop it in my face, because I am not obligated to talk to you so don't expect me to start a conversation with you fucking dumbass.
It is expected that the consistory will influence the agenda for next October's synod of bishops in Rome.
Around lunchtime we stopped in Christchurch, which is a much larger city than I had expected. Stonetable.org » 2003 » December
The operator is expected to keep the trains clean, and passengers are expected to take their rubbish with them and also not graffiti them.
That suture is an unexpected and original way of safeguarding the novel's integrity.
Expectations, helpfully, could scarcely be lower.
On average, Maori life expectancy is 10 years less than that of Pakeha.
It does not matter that they are unusual, unexpected, unforeseen and unforeseeable.
Nothing, in short, evinced to the august visitors any symptom of a reverse of fortune, such as they had been led to expect, in the position and circumstances of Marie de Medicis. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
This was gracious of him and also provoked an unexpected conspiratorial mirth between the interviewer and interviewee. Times, Sunday Times
They expect him to step aside and make way for an old man.
Second, women have a longer expectation of life than men.
Cathy was never late and expected the same when you met her for dinner.
The young man — fortified as he was by a natural cynical pride and passionateness — winced at this unexpected reply, notwithstanding. A Changed Man
The decision removed one of the rebels' principal grievances and was expected to strengthen Frelimo's position at the negotiating table.
You would have expected a convert to free market economics to have been equally scathing of both public service corporations.
Tesco alone has said it expects the new levy to reduce bag use by 88 million.
She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
Significantly, he is unconcerned by the expected humidity.
And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
There are other unexpected similarities between the two writers. Times, Sunday Times
Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
Expected mortality was found for each age band, disease site, and decade of diagnosis.
Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.
Every year the tax man expects us to fork up.
Rewarding performance Motivation is a choice to channel energy into certain activities in the expectation that valued goals will be rewarded.
If this was the UK, I would expect to be ushered to a table (probably grumbling inwardly about the empty tables I passed on the way), then, once seated, make a curt nod and "hullo" to my table mates before either engaging in quiet conversation with my companion or looking pensively out of the window, trying hard to look like I'm thinking of Very Important Things. Amtrak adventures
His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant entry to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers. HomeToys News
This was gracious of him and also provoked an unexpected conspiratorial mirth between the interviewer and interviewee. Times, Sunday Times
That unexpectedly collapses it into a black hole, a supermassive region with a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape.
P.S. As you are on sabbatical, can we expect you to be coding in Fortran soon? Exploiting Spatial Memory: Code Canvas | Serendipity
They are now expected within the next few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
When apparel maker Betabrand created a pair of khaki pants whose back-pocket linings and hems could be exposed to reveal reflective fabric, it expected the pants to be a short-term novelty item. Beyond Spandex: Chic Styles for Cyclists Take Off
An unexpected call for a no-confidence vote against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over his handling of a debt crisis at one of Vietnam's biggest state-owned firms shows that the political fallout from the country's worst-ever financial scandal might just be starting, analysts say. Vietnamese Premier Faces Fallout on Vinashin
Peter expected high standards, but his sometimes austere manner veiled a deep concern for people and an insight into the human condition.
Eventually, we expect to become citizens of Mexico, so "immigrant" is more appropriate. Expat or Immigrant?
Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
Fidelity is expected to release its monthly mutual fund guide tomorrow.
It is a piece of Scotland in the heart of the auld enemy, so it might be expected to maintain the traditional hostility towards the English and their team.
The average life expectancy was 40.
They expect no joy from the vote itself.
As expected the bill will introduce a 50 per cent turnout threshold for strike ballots. Times, Sunday Times
Over coffee the Queen asked him ‘To what do we owe the unexpected honour of your visit?’
It was precision expectoration that accurately landed a deposit of froth about two feet from my Oxford brogues.
Semi-autonomous vehicles are expected to witness a rapid growth over the forecast timeline owing to the driving assistance features.
The probe will hit the coldest layer of the atmosphere, the tropopause, at about 28 miles, where expected temperatures hover around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius).
Candle makers, after all, cannot be expected to hail the invention of the electric light bulb, nor hostlers the advent of automobiles, nor canal-boat owners the building of railways, nor TV broadcasters the laying down of cable systems.
Some women, for example, may expect that their honey will handle everything.
I was well aware of the drill here, that is, that a bribe was expected to process the papers.
Your hardware vendor should have benchmark data stating the expected Memory, CPU (FLOPS), Disk, and Network performance.
On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
From most of the preachers and all the humbugs they expect nothing else.
You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love. As long as you keep your hand curly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers around it and try to possess it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love. They try to posses it, they demand, they expect and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you.
It also has led us to rethink the notion of naturalness and the rock solid expectation this used to lead to, of finding new physics just beyond the electroweak scale. Two cheers for string theory
This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
He will expect some reward after working so hard.
The question was so unexpected that , for a moment , she was at a loss how to act up properly.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
If I am injured in body or pocket I expect the person causing that injury to compensate me for any losses that I incur unless it has been a genuine accident.
Expect the cold war between the two coalition partners, then, to enter one of its icier periods. Times, Sunday Times
There are motifs, themes, and recurring melodies, all the things you'd expect from one song blown up to forty minutes.
Users visualize the Undo facility in different ways, depending on the situation and their expectations.
They are expecting the new legislation to have quite a rough passage through parliament.
The original Aryan gods were not expected to work miracles or control men's lives.
That surplus is being unexpectedly whittled away as the income tax cut and the economic slowdown lower federal tax receipts.
The Hill's liberals will count it a successful session if they can scratch up a billion or so out of the defense budget, add in the money freed up if, as expected, Carter's counter-inflationary "real-wage insurance" plan is defeated, and then spread the dividends among the hardest-hit programs. The Politics of Austerity
The company said it will give a 180-day nonrenewal notice to about 8,000 Florida policyholders beginning in March, and expects to fully withdraw from the market by the second half of 2012. Citing Sinkhole Claims, Mercury General Quits Florida Market
I'll add that if you're feeding a high-quality dog food, most of the food goes to making more puppy, not to poop, so it's often the case that dogs poop a whole lot less than you might expect.
They crowded around me and watched me expectantly, as if I would spill my darkest, most revealing secrets.
Even her few words of Gaelic at the start of her speech at the state dinner on Wednesday evening – "A Úachtárain agus a chairde" "president and friends", immaculately pronounced – were an unexpected gesture. Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite
If you know that, and contract a goblin craftsman, you should probably expect to abide by that concept. A very unsatisfying answer « Love | Peace | Ohana
They expected gasoline stockpiles to drop 1.7 million barrels and distillate inventories to fall 300,000 barrels. Oil Falls, Awaits Obama
"I would have expected more of a fight from Adakran's boy, " the man sighed with disappointment.
He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable. Heron Lake
Perhaps because most of the cast is made up of relative no-names, we shouldn't expect the caliber of their talent to be very high, but more of the blame for the poor performances can be laid at the director's feet.
Once we have this information we will prepare a quotation with the aim of trying to ensure your aims and expectations are exceeded whilst remaining within your budget.
And he turns out to be more expert than you might expect, thanks to an Aussie wife and knowledge gleaned on previous visits. Times, Sunday Times
Sources expect there is little chance of agreement between the two sides on the vexed issue of overtime, expected to hit 64 million this year.
Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black – visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep. Oliver Twist
Drivers who exceed the speed limit can expect to be fined heavily.
County officials are expected to announce details of the plan today.
Mr McDowell insisted that he would continue to rein in the overtime budget, which is expected to reach 64 million this year.
Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man. I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever
_They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity. Freeland A Social Anticipation
The rebellion is expected to further damage the country's image.
The television age has transformed the conventions into presentational exercises from which the unknown and unexpected are ruthlessly excised.
For some time he lived with the expectation that he was going to die.
The increased use of automation can also be expected to be a factor in this market segment.
Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
It is expected to receive royal assent by the year-end. Times, Sunday Times
Your expected time of arrival is 7.15.
As evidenced by his seven interceptions this season, he's a ballhawk who has a knack for popping up in unexpected places.
They expect this water to crest sometime in the middle of the night.
If you play the fool, and lose a good job on consequence , you can hardly expect much sympathy.
Afterwards, Conradt spoke of her team that had exceeded everybody's expectations except its own.
Memorable scenes include Ornella Muti putting an oversized safety pin to some rather startling uses, and a listful cat and mouse game between Ben Gazzara and Susan Tyrrell which results in Gazarra’s arrest when you least expect it. World cinema classics #48 « Jahsonic
It says that patients expected less but in some ways received more. Times, Sunday Times
However, it said the 7,980 small-to-medium sized wide-body deliveries expected during that window would be worth $2.3 trillion. Times, Sunday Times
My own mother said romantically that I was to expect you to feel like "catching a butterfly in my hand."
Punters expected earnings to have been pressured by unseasonably warm weather in Europe and production to have been hit by dampened demand and disposals. Times, Sunday Times
If you're expecting Dad to let you borrow his car, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
The events of the past week came as a complete shock to the entire team, as one might expect.
They might also expect a return visit from an official with a search warrant wishing to verify the truth of the destruction assertion. ill lich TSA subpoenas, threatens two bloggers who published non-classified airline security directive Boing Boing
And events since the Report have exposed the emptiness of any such expectation.
Better prepared and more aggressive, he unexpectedly outmanoeuvred the prime minister.
The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
Allthough it could be just prudent housekeeping ahead of the expected cuts and the hootsmon is spinning it as a "rammy with westminster" article, we all know Westminster are going to be scrooge and cant afford it after Browns disaster. The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters
We EXPECT this kind of flim flam stuff from the tax & spenders .. an we USED to DEPEND on the Republicans to be the grown up with budgets. The right-wing liberal
It will be the prospect of witnessing something few of us expected to see again. Times, Sunday Times

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