How to use "expect" in a sentence
Sentences
"Captain, you can't expect us to stay on this ship for ever!"
And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels.
We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view
Don't expect me here tomorrow.'
I expect him to have dark eyes and dirty hair, but he does not
"You know, the surprise at the end of the story, the thing you don't expect." Eleanor smiles and takes a drink
I didn't expect all these people.'
'I expect we'll get on well when she knows me better,' I said
I did not expect the telephone to ring.'
'What on earth did she expect?'
I heard Mrs Danvers say, 'I expect she went into the library
'I did not expect to see you here, Mrs Danvers
We all expect you to wear something really special.'
"Oh, I don't expect you to give it up," he said magnanimously.
She didn't expect him to answer
He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared
The residents of Sunrise Mountain could expect to share their patios and decks and pool aprons with occasional visiting scorpions, tarantulas, and rattlesnakes
She wanted to be enjoying an ordinary meal, on an ordinary evening, in the middle of a blissfully ordinary life, with every reason to expect a long, comfortable, ordinary future
And if assassins were waiting here, they would expect their prey to approach the funeral home boldly, confidently
They won't expect us to be that bold
But where do you expect to find a hypnotist? The last time I looked, they weren't setting up shops on street corners."
'Well, don't expect me in for tea,' said Dennis
And I expect everyone thinks it is somebody different
'No, but I expect someone heard something
Why would she take a suitcase into the woods at twelve o'clock at night? I don't expect it has anything to do with the murder
"Well," I said, "There was no hat here when I cleaned the room on Thursday morning." And she said, "But I don't expect you would have seen it
You'll come in sight of the Martians, I expect, about a kilometer along this road.'
However, whether we expect another attack or not, our views of the human future must now be changed by these events
What do you expect her to do?'