How to use "expected" in a sentence

I had expected to be alone

At least drinking it wasn't as bad as I expected.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained

"Much better than I expected, to be honest

They were earlier than I expected

She shook hands with me and said to Maxim, 'She's quite different from what I expected

'You know,' she said, 'you are much younger than I expected

We expected a very modern sort of girl.' Beatrice laughed and I laughed with her.

As I said before, you are not what we expected

She said I was quite different from what she expected.'

No one expected me to do anything

I expected everyone to laugh and clap as I walked down the stairs.

The evening was turning out to be even more interesting than she had expected.

When Tina squeezed into the narrow gap between the tables and caught Michael's attention, his reaction was far different from what she had expected

She looked better than she expected

At least Kennebeck hadn't refused the request; nevertheless, Elliot had expected a quicker and more satisfying response

This was the last thing Elliot expected

He found some small change, a comb, a wallet, and the sheaf of papers on which were typed the questions that Elliot had been expected to answer.

"We're expected," Elliot said.

He had never expected to play that game again

As he drove from one residential street to another, steadily heading away from the smoke, working toward a major thoroughfare, Elliot expected to encounter the black van at every intersection.

He hadn't expected to find the man at work

Willis Bruckster quickly knelt at Michael Evans's side and took his pulse as if he expected to find one

He had expected his co-workers to be super-patriotic right-wingers

He expected to see the entire white-shrouded lawn begin to move and rise in the forms of ten, fifteen, twenty other assassins.

"But they expected us through the front door." He took her by the arm

With every step he took, Elliot expected to hear a shot fired a cry of alarm, and the sounds of men in pursuit of quarry.

"I expected an enormous structure, a gigantic complex."

I now expected that my husband would invite the Air Ministry people to come down, but he went on working.

It wasn't the answer he had expected

I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train

I think everyone expected to see a man come out - possibly something a little unlike us on Earth, but more or less a man

He told me that during the night the Martians had been surrounded by soldiers and that field-guns were expected.

I expected only death.

I expected at least to see smoke or fire, but there was only the deep-blue sky above and one single star

Every moment I expected a hidden gun to fire at it, but the evening calm was unbroken