expected

How To Use expected In A Sentence

• 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
• It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
• I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
• The decision removed one of the rebels' principal grievances and was expected to strengthen Frelimo's position at the negotiating table.
• The argument behind x is not quantitative, and we do not have an expression for its expected value under a null isolation model.
• So in terms of home furnishing it is expected to have curtain, bedspreads, cushion covers etc.
• The temperature is not expected to reach the 20 degree mark in the next few days.
• 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.
• 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.
• They men weren't bored, as they'd expected, and were usually the heartiest laughers.