Sentence for expecting | Use expecting in a sentence

Sentences for expecting. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use expecting in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for expecting.

  • We sat up expecting you. (10)
  • Was she expecting him to dance? (8)
  • Shrapnel said he was expecting him. (10)
  • She appeared to be expecting a retort. (10)
  • She was expecting me to meet her at Boston. (9)
  • Of course they are expecting it very soon now. (8)
  • Weyburn has come, expecting to find you here. (10)
  • He looked on her, expecting her to look at him. (10)
  • Was your wife expecting you to come on board here? (9)
  • Never let it be long again when I am expecting you. (10)
  • What she had been expecting all these days had come! (8)
  • He sighed, expecting a sight to come through the hangings. (10)
  • A woman who can openly talk of expecting him to be twice jilted! (10)
  • Nor did I like to defend Mr. Rippenger for expecting to be paid. (10)
  • She is a woman of mettle: she is probably expecting to be wooed. (10)
  • But she would be expecting explanations before the reconcilement. (10)
  • Fellingham gazed at the carpet, as if expecting a flame to arise. (10)
  • Holly, too, was expecting him, and what he had in his bag for her. (8)
  • But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. (4)
  • Expecting reproof, I begged him not to think the worse of me for that. (10)
  • He was back in his rooms in London two hours before he dared begin expecting her. (8)
  • She seemed to be smiling at him, and expecting him to smile at her; and so he did smile. (8)
  • She waited, expecting Miss Dale to return; then undressed, went to bed, tried to sleep. (10)
  • I have been expecting to hear from you, and still more to see you, every hour of the day. (4)
  • He kept expecting it, pausing for it, hoping it would come to solve his intense perplexity. (10)
  • He kept expecting it, pausing for it, hoping it would come to solve his intense perplexity. (22)
  • She walks about with her eyes shut, expecting not to stumble, and when she does, am I to blame? (10)
  • I believe you did not hear me telling the others in the drawing-room that we are expecting Frank. (4)
  • She is contented though she has not seen him again and has not the look of expecting to see him. (10)
  • As we stood there expecting nothing better of it than three at the most, it suddenly struck twelve. (9)
  • She had been expecting him to say that there was nothing in her misgiving, and he could not say it. (9)
  • Dialer possessed undoubted fluency, but did tittle, though Sir Austin was ever expecting much of him. (10)
  • He said he was expecting a summons elsewhere, bound to await it, declined provocation for the present. (10)
  • For the rest of the afternoon we worked steadily, expecting to come in sight of Kilia long before sunset. (20)
  • As he had been little mauled, he could present a face to her, expecting a wreath of smiles for the victor. (10)
  • He had been all that while in Europe, expecting any day to come home and begin life again, in his own land. (9)
  • She had never lost consciousness of her ring-finger, expecting every eye to fall on it as a matter of course. (8)
  • She rose, with a sudden lift of her powerful frame, and stood a moment as if expecting Westover to say something. (9)
  • I was led farther on, half expecting that the accessories of time and place would have to do with the revelation. (10)
  • At home one is always expecting them back, and they do half come back in a thousand things that daily recall them. (14)
  • He paused, not expecting that the letter would be shown, but silence fired shots, and he had stopped the petition. (10)
  • The burden of the night was bearable, but that of daylight I fled from, and all day I was like one expecting a crisis. (10)
  • She had been expecting to see him the whole morning, and all the evening, too, was still expecting him. (4)
  • The sentry was satisfied; his comrades had been expecting provision boats from Montreal, and he thought they had arrived. (19)
  • The woman led them to a cave in the rocks, where she had stored provision and sat two days expecting the signal from Trent. (10)
  • Right down she went, full tilt, and after her went Lennan, lying back, and expecting the bay mare to come down at every stride. (8)
  • Fanny found that it was not to be, and in the modesty of her nature immediately felt that she had been unreasonable in expecting it. (4)
  • The craven, with desires expecting to be blest, is a zealot of the faith which ascribes the direction of events to the outer world. (10)
  • She did not pretend that she was surprised; she owned that she had sometimes expected it; she blamed herself for not expecting it then. (9)
  • Farther down the line there were more runabouts, and they were driven by wives freshly dressed, who were expecting package-laden husbands. (13)
  • Farina beheld himself in the service of the Emperor watching these signs, and expecting on the morrow to win glory and a name for Margarita. (10)
  • Both cavaliers, being famished besides baffled, were in sour tempers, expecting to see just the dead wooden stile, and see it as a grin at them. (10)
  • Having arrived, he ran hastily up to the room, expecting to find the three; but Lady Charlotte was alone, sitting in her chair with knotted arms. (10)
  • He therefore opened the paper, expecting something worse than what he had hitherto seen, despite its formal heading, and he was not disappointed. (10)
  • She explained that she was expecting a baroness, who was coming from Küstrin especially to see her in order to get advice on important family matters. (12)
  • It was easily perceived that Lord Ormont stood expecting an assault at any instant; prepared also to encounter and do battle with his redoubtable sister. (10)

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