Sentence for expectation | Use expectation in a sentence

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• Expectation and excitement! (10)
• She was past expectation of release. (10)
• He is in expectation of exalted rank. (10)
• The period of expectation was now doubled. (4)
• Victor asked in a tone of no expectation. (10)
• He saw greed and expectation in every eye. (12)
• In his expectation of it he hung inflated. (10)
• She now lost every expectation of pleasure. (4)
• Tremulous with expectation, she ran up to the nursery. (8)
• The style of the letter was much above her expectation. (4)
• They were obliged to put an end to such an expectation. (4)
• All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over. (4)
• Their whole life is an expectation of something to happen. (9)
• I have more than half an expectation of our all going abroad. (4)
• The war and its constant expectation and anxiety oppress me. (14)
• For half an hour I was in momentary expectation of his departure. (4)
• Harriet seemed quite forgotten in the expectation of a pleasant party. (4)
• I shall then give over every expectation, every wish of his constancy. (4)
• Expectation is grateful, you know; in the mood of gratitude we are waxen. (10)
• It was visible that the hero of the night hung listening and in expectation. (10)
• No one but Jane, she thought, could flatter herself with such an expectation. (4)
• He did that mechanically, without curiosity and without definite expectation. (12)
• She was nervous; she sat in expectation of some burst of regrets or of passion. (10)
• The old familiar country about the house lay still as if it knew no expectation. (10)
• The old familiar country about the house lay still as if it knew no expectation. (22)
• As this was the attitude of a severe student, Mrs. Chump remained in expectation. (10)
• I ask myself whether my manner of greeting him betrayed my expectation of another. (10)
• Every hope, every expectation from him suspended, at least, and who could say how long? (4)
• But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer. (4)
• Her soft, deer-like eyes were full of expectation and delight and just a shade of cunning. (12)
• Mrs. Maynard watched her a while in expectation that she would say more, but she did not speak. (9)
• As I prospected, I saw no possible end to the venture save that of every expectation fulfilled. (16)
• Certainly he could disappoint no reasonable expectation, no intelligent expectation. (9)
• On the great highroad of life there is Expectation, and there is Attainment, and also there is Envy. (10)
• What vexed him still more was his own consciousness that he could not defeat this impudent expectation. (9)
• Supposing that he was a minute behind his time, would the Bank-doors remain open, in expectation of him? (10)
• Supposing that he was a minute behind his time, would the Bank-doors remain open, in expectation of him? (22)
• The disappointment of the evening before seemed forgotten in the expectation of what was to happen that day. (4)
• Now, that sight amazed me, and my heart in its beating quickened with the expectation of things approaching. (10)
• He was taking it differently from their expectation, as if some thought, strange to them, were working in him. (8)
• Instead of a fallen load, she fancied presently that it was an expectation she was desiring to realize: but what? (10)
• And Marianne was in spirits; happy in the mildness of the weather, and still happier in her expectation of a frost. (4)
• He perceived her expectation; he had nothing but clownish tumult within, and his dignity counselled him to disappoint her. (10)
• As the moment approached for our departure, you can have no idea how the sweet Creatures trembled with fear and expectation. (4)
• From this moment her mind was never quiet; the expectation of seeing him every hour of the day, made her unfit for any thing. (4)
• Many people came up and spoke to her, at first with a certain expectation of knowingness in her, which her simplicity baffled. (9)
• She was struck, however, beyond her expectation, by the grandeur of the abbey, as she saw it for the first time from the lawn. (4)
• Blacksmith, a little man, had in his hand a short notched cane, with which, contrary to expectation, he did not switch his legs. (8)
• The morning had answered all her hopes, and the evening of the following day was now the object of expectation, the future good. (4)
• In nine cases in ten the person who bought did so in the hope and expectation of getting much for little and something for nothing. (7)
• They took a slight survey of all; and Catherine was impressed, beyond her expectation, by their multiplicity and their convenience. (4)
• But they had no curiosity to see how Mr. and Mrs. Palmer ate their dinner, and no expectation of pleasure from them in any other way. (4)
• Perhaps she did not fully realize all that the doctor had intended; life alone is credible to the young; life and the expectation of it. (9)
• V. Continuity is so much the lesson of experience that in the course of a life by no means long it becomes the instinctive expectation. (9)
• Equally unforgettable were the expectation of his coming, the delight of his presence, the admiration that met him from the eyes of men. (12)
• Carinthia felt at once how wild the wish or half expectation that he would resume the glowing communion of the night which had plighted them. (10)
• Bernhardt, a thrill of the rich expectation which cannot fail to precede the rise of any curtain upon any Hamlet passed through my eager frame. (9)
• Among my fellow-guests one night was George S. Hillard, now a faded reputation, and even then a life defeated of the high expectation of its youth. (9)
• Now, true dramatic action is what characters do, at once contrary, as it were, to expectation, and yet because they have already done other things. (8)
• But when the youth had murmured that it was hot, and passed, she relapsed into her attitude of hopeless expectation, into her patient, sourish smile. (8)
• Now and then, however, Jeff disappointed the expectation Westover had formed of him, by coming to see him, and being apparently glad of the privilege. (9)
• No such expectation could soothe the friend, and some might be thinking misleader, of Ambrose Mallard, before he had ocular proof that the body lay underground. (10)
• Any sudden light of happier expectation that might have animated him was extinguished by the flight of chatter following the cry which had sounded like Beauchamp. (10)

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