Sentence for expected | Use expected in a sentence

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  • He had not expected this. (8)
  • I expected what would come. (10)
  • I expected you to stay two months. (4)
  • This was not what she had expected. (10)
  • Rosamund had expected that he would. (10)
  • He had expected something more than this. (8)
  • Had she not expected him by the usual train? (8)
  • Well, to-morrow, if not to-day, the tripping may be expected! (10)
  • I found that Miss Darcy was expected to dinner. (4)
  • I always expected to write the circulars myself. (9)
  • I expected to find a more reasonable young woman. (4)
  • You were expected yesterday, at latest this morning. (10)
  • Or, why did he thus come a day before he was expected? (4)
  • Nesta most impudently expected to be allowed to remain. (10)
  • I never expected to enjoy myself so much again in the world. (9)
  • Mela knew that Christine had expected Beaton to follow them. (9)
  • Janet expected me to be enthusiastic likewise, or remorseful. (10)
  • She expected a sudden intervention, even though at the altar. (10)
  • She expected a sudden intervention, even though at the altar. (22)
  • His spirits had been greatly recovering lately as might be expected. (4)
  • Certainly not the partridge I should have expected from its breeding! (8)
  • Secretly he hoped that the French fleet he expected would come in time. (19)
  • I had every attention from the Frasers that could be reasonably expected. (4)
  • He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected. (4)
  • Here was the skeleton of the love match, earlier than Livia had expected. (10)
  • In the unsettled state of the country as full a house as could be expected. (8)
  • I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability, that it would happen. (4)
  • He had expected romance, and had met merchandize, and his vanity was offended. (10)
  • He was just such a Man as one might have expected to be the choice of Macdonald. (4)
  • Mrs. Sedley was asked if she expected her brother to join her here or in Milan. (10)
  • Jane looked a little paler than usual, but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected. (4)
  • Mercy was not in their code; they neither gave it, nor, when captured, expected it. (19)
  • The form of amenity expected from her, in relation to her brother, was not exhibited. (10)
  • He had not expected that of the India-rubber nature he had attributed to Mrs. Westangle. (9)
  • Shelton had expected a more lofty reason; he applied himself to the Madeira in his glass. (8)
  • And besides, he expected to inherit, he said, and gazed in a way to sharpen her instincts. (10)
  • He would have liked to know whether Diana had recently visited the house, or was expected. (10)
  • I expected it; though assuredly, believe me, not this sudden and indisputable proof of it. (10)
  • He is not what I expected, but he is thoroughly nice, and I should think his family was nice. (9)
  • As it was hung with purple draperies and richly garlanded, the monarch was evidently expected. (5)
  • He had been denouncing the flat in the abstract, and he had not expected this concrete result. (9)
  • This was to be expected from the character of the little coterie interested in the new art-form. (3)
  • He expected to be Viceroy of the Colonies, and to receive the title of Lord Barclugh of Allegheny. (18)
  • The doctor no more expected to see a Radical come into the world from a good family than a radish. (10)
  • Each part was expected to be melodious; and it varied from two to four in the number of voices used. (3)
  • The case of Forsyte v. Bosinney was expected to be reached on the morrow, before Mr. Justice Bentham. (8)
  • They think themselves secure, you do no more than what is expected, and it raises no gratitude at all. (4)
  • That anxious gentleman consulted his watch from time to time, as if he expected the birth of an event. (10)
  • She had expected to be welcomed by Aminta, and she was very timid on finding herself alone with the earl. (10)
  • She was really very watchful of Ellen when it would least have been expected, and sometimes she was sweet. (9)
  • He, who had married a daughter to Mr. Rushworth: romantic delicacy was certainly not to be expected from him. (4)
  • Not where I am expected to smile and sparkle, on pain of incurring suspicion if I show a sign of oppression. (10)
  • I have always thought the case of clergymen a hard one, because they are expected to be inspired once a week. (14)
  • A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me. (4)
  • Chillon expected the lowest of his countrymen to show some degree of chivalry upon occasions like the present. (10)
  • The butler asked whether Mrs. Soames was in the cab, the master had told him they were both expected to dinner. (8)
  • Elinor submitted to the arrangement which counteracted her wishes with less reluctance than she had expected to feel. (4)
  • Lady Busshe and Lady Culmer will soon be rushing here, and declaring they never expected anything else, I do not doubt. (10)
  • Mrs. Spellman received her son-in-law in her equable, unknowing manner, as if she had expected him to arrive on that day. (13)
  • She wounded him by not supplying the expected enthusiastic asseveration of her belief in his general tendency to magnanimity. (10)
  • He surprised her with her Christian name, which kindled in her the secret of something he expected from that ride on the downs. (10)
  • Elizabeth now expected that she would produce a letter for her from Charlotte, as it seemed the only probable motive for her calling. (4)
  • His people had expected great things of him when he was only crown prince, and he did not disappoint them when he came to the throne. (5)
  • Evidently discovering that it was no more than she expected, she sighed, and rummaged out of a top drawer an old illustrated magazine. (8)
  • Anne, remembering the preconcerted visits, at all hours, of Mr Elliot, would have expected him, but for his known engagement seven miles off. (4)
  • Except for its remoteness from the railroad, a drawback which future enterprise might be expected to remedy in some way, the place has many natural advantages. (9)

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