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Sentences starting with expect

Expect me when you see me. [9]
Expect he will die. [5]
Expect you. [11]
Expect letter. [4]

Sentences ending with expect

No one knew what was left from the storm, nor what to expect. [4]
Indeed it is what I expect. [5]
I don't like to say it,--he continued,--but poets commonly have no larger stock of tunes than hand-organs; and when you hear them piping up under your window, you know pretty well what to expect. [6]
You speak your thought, and they know what to expect. [11]
But the wave they feel to be rising does not come from the quarter they expect. [2]
We will take the road that promises to have that end, and we would not turn out of it, if it were a hundred times worse than our fears lead us to expect. [12]
I have shown the malcontents what they have to expect. [10]
He blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life--to say an unpleasant thing to a man's face, to say what the other, whoever he might be, did not expect. [2]
He has been reading a little, but now"--Michael Ivanovich went on, lowering his voice--"now he's at his desk, busy with his will, I expect. [2]
Venters grew concerned over the possibility that these horsemen would actually ride down on him before he had a chance to tell what to expect. [13]

Short sentences using expect

I didn't expect you. [9]
We shall expect you to-morrow. [11]
I expect him to-morrow. [10]
I should expect they would. [7]
What else could one expect? [5]
Can I expect no satisfaction? [10]
Could she expect more? [9]
I expect that's it. [11]
What reception could he expect? [10]
They expect much from us. [9]

Sentences containing expect two or more times

It is a tremendous favor to ask, and I expect you to refuse and would be ashamed to expect you to do otherwise. [5]
I should expect to find faith in humanity greater and not less than it is now, and I should not expect to find that Mr. Froude's mournful expectation had been realized, and that the belief in a life beyond the grave had been withdrawn. [4]
What should you say, sir, to a city, built up like the rod of Aladdin had touched it, built up in two years, where now you wouldn't expect it any more than you'd expect a light-house on the top of Pilot Knob? [5]
We do not object to criticism; and we do not expect that the critic will read the book before writing a notice of it: We do not even expect the reviewer of the book will say that he has not read it. [5]
No, I do not expect to be entertained by you, nor do I want you to expect me to entertain you and your friends to-night, for I decline to keep the engagement. [5]
I do not expect the Union to dissolve--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided. [9]
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. [7]
I do not expect the house to fall, I do not expect the Union to dissolve; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. [7]
I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. [7]
I expect to do all this, but I expect to go to the States first--and from China to the Paris World's Fair. [5]

More example sentences with the word expect in them

Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life. [11]
I cannot expect you, who have known the happiness of marriage, to realize the tortures of it without love. [9]
I couldn't expect you to see the necessity of that. [9]
I didn't expect you to go to the expense of getting a seat. [9]
Was it because you thought she deserved it, and that you had given her reason to expect it? [7]
I didn't expect you so early. [9]
Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print, yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. [7]
She also says you have written me two letters, and that, although you do not expect me to come now, you wonder that I do not write. [7]
That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
I am glad you have laid down some rules by which a man may reasonably expect to leap the eight barred gate. [6]
And what do you expect us to do? [9]
What headway do you expect to make at the assemblies? [9]
But what can you expect of a chief justice who need not be a lawyer, as this one is not, and has other means of earning income which, though not disloyal, are lowering to the status of a chief justice? [11]
But what do you expect me to do? [9]
Now what would you expect from that unpromising material? [5]
What profit would you expect and certainly receive from the investment? [5]
I shall expect you early, as soon as I have bathed. [10]
Vegetables of course you can't expect here. [5]
I shall expect you at sundown at my house over there. [10]
We know that you are "all of a feather," and that we have to beat you all together, and we expect to do it. [7]
I wrote you yesterday my darling, and shall expect to write you every day. [5]
If I were writing a poem you would expect, as a matter of course, that there would be a digression now and then. [6]
If he had wounded her deeply, he had a right to expect her to excuse many things in him. [10]
Of course they would not expect it every morning. [6]
How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, and what to expect after it beyond the grave! [2]
She is already worshipped, and we must expect this feeling to spread territorially, and also to deepen in intensity [1]. [5]
She is already worshiped, and we must expect this feeling to spread, territorially, and also to deepen in intensity. [5]
Writing of his work on the Adirondacks, he says, "If I should ever live to get this wonderful thing written, I expect it will show one thing, if no more; and that is, that every thing has an opposite. [4]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
We call the woman from the field, and give her money, which she seemed not to expect, and for which she shows no gratitude. [4]
No," she added, with conviction, "I never again expect to see him alive. [9]
As the day will probably come when every man in Hartford will live in his own mammoth, five-story granite insurance building, it may not be unreasonable to expect that every man will sport his own Gothic church. [4]
I'll be a Will o' the Wisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when you least expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irritation. [12]
Malicious tongues have whispered that this is all ye have to expect from me; but I tell you, that if we conquer, fresh favors will be shown to you and your descendants; I shall call you the supporters of my throne. [10]
Circumstances--to some of which you kindly allude--induce me especially to expect that if justice and good faith should be practised by the United States, they would encounter no hostile influence on the part of Great Britain. [7]
In my answers, which have been printed, and all have had the opportunity of seeing, I take the ground that those who elect me must expect that I will do nothing which will not be in accordance with those answers. [7]
From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation. [6]
No one knows what to expect from this new ruler; he commands today the very thing, which he angrily forbade the day before. [10]
And classes is what some of us didn't expect to find in this country, but freedom. [9]
Do you know what our masters expect of us? [10]
If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. [5]
Of course," she went on, controlling her rising agitation, and anticipating a sign of protest, "we shouldn't expect to have any people, ---and Gertrude wasn't married in St. John's before; that wedding was at Passumset our seashore place. [9]
We know as well what differences to expect in the habits of a mucous and of a serous membrane, as what mineral substances to look for in the chalk or the coal measures. [3]
Granting all this, we must not expect too much from "science" as distinguished from common experience. [3]
For a week we had schooled ourselves to expect nothing more from this wicked world, but here was an enchanting vision. [4]
I don't know: we don't quite expect a saint to be rustic; but with all his goodness Conrad Dryfoos was a country person. [8]
For, of course, we cannot expect all of the powers to be in their right minds at one time. [5]
I don't suppose we can expect another Mr. Ditmar...." "Well," said Hannah, presently, "there's no use sitting up all night. [9]
Only in this way, according to our present methods, could one expect to accomplish anything in regard to this foreign-felt want. [4]
You've got to watch things, if you expect them to go smooth. [4]
That I never was in a Know-Nothing lodge in Quincy, I should expect could be easily proved by respectable men who were always in the lodges and never saw me there. [7]
All this luxury was as grateful to systems and senses worn out with an exhausting day's travel, as it was unexpected--for one can not tell what to expect in a Turkish city of even a quarter of a million inhabitants. [5]
Unlike Lise, she was able to see life as it is, she did not expect of it miracles, economic or matrimonial. [9]
I expect I was a precocious youth, and wasn't exactly the kind for Sunday-school prizes. [11]
It was all very well for one man to run vast risks and attempt quixotic enterprises, but neither he nor his countrymen had any right to expect Europe to embroil itself on his particular account. [11]
She is a very handsome woman --perhaps you would expect me to say handsome still; but that seems a sort of treason to her mature beauty. [4]
How could he, Verus, expect that Caesar should ally his fortunate star with the fatal star of another doomed to die? [10]
I have just ventured to send out a carrier dove," he added, turning to the artist, "to inform Myrtilus that he may expect you before sunset. [10]
One cannot expect vegetables to be better than men: and they make a great deal of ostentatious splurge; and many of them come to no result at last. [4]
If I enter upon this wide field of horticultural experiment, I shall leave peace behind; and I may expect the ground to open, and swallow me and all my fortune. [4]
It was hardly unreasonable to expect to see at any moment, the gables and square windows of an Elizabethan mansion in one of the well kept groves. [5]
It would be unfair to expect tokens of friendship from the vanquished; but can you deny that even the bitterest hatred could scarcely succeed in devising anything more hostile? [10]
At threescore and twenty one must expect such hints of what is like to happen before long. [6]
Dona Magdalena must try how she can accommodate herself to widowhood while she has a living husband, if the Holy Virgin will only permit me to offer your Majesty what you expect from me. [10]
Some of the Trustees have proposed interdoosin' new branches of study, and I expect you will be pooty much occoopied with the dooties that belong to your place. [6]
I must say, too, that your refusal is something of a shock after what I had been led to expect after the past few years. [9]
And we feel, too, that some of the city's Democrats ought to be loyal to Mr. Watling,--not that we expect them to vote for him in caucus, but when it comes to the joint ballot--" "Who? [9]
He was but too well aware of the weakness of the garrison of the turquoise mines and knew that he could expect no aid from home. [10]
Boarders sometimes expect too much of the ladies that provides for them. [6]
Do not expect too much ground to be covered in this rapid survey. [3]
I expect he told you so; and if he did, what did you say to him? [11]
I expect I told more lies than I have told before in a month. [5]
If anybody had told me that it would take me two years to pay back that forty-six dollars to the banker (for I did not expect it of the Prodigal, and was not disappointed), I would have felt injured. [5]
I had begun to write, and every strong emotion was uttered in verses, which I showed to the companions from whom I could expect sympathy. [10]
I am obliged to walk, very much against my will; but the people expect it of me, and public characters can't be their own masters and mistresses in such matters as these. [12]
I didn't expect to use it until to-night at nine o'clock, when, also for the first time, I am to light the mills by electricity; a thing that's not been attempted yet in any saw-mill on the Continent. [11]
Now, I appeal to this audience (very few of whom are my political friends), as national men, whether we have reason to expect that the agitation in regard to this subject will cease while the causes that tend to reproduce agitation are actively at work? [7]
He kindly motioned to them to keep silence, and asked what induced them to expect leisure time on that day, when, by the exertion of all their powers, they were to display their skill in the presence of their mistress and the Emperor. [10]
Then again as to the mere music of a new poem; why, who can expect anything more from that than from the music of a violin fresh from the maker's hands? [6]
And he used to tell me that we must all do our part, we who had come here, and not expect everything to be done for us. [9]
I don't expect to take the saddle-bags out of the express office. [5]
I never expect to stand on a lecture platform again after Thursday night. [5]
You can't expect to smell one without buying it, but you may buy one without smelling it. [6]
I was about to say, my dear, that I expect to have a great deal of--well, of rather difficult company this summer. [9]
The telegram seems to say, "The Sovereigns and the Royal Children expect themselves at Rome tomorrow at fifty-one minutes after fifteen o'clock. [5]
Sometimes they expect to pay for the information furnished them; at other times, the honor of being included in a list of noted personages who have received similar requests is thought sufficient compensation. [6]
Pierre had failed to notice Natasha because he did not at all expect to see her there, but he had failed to recognize her because the change in her since he last saw her was immense. [2]
Don't expect me to meet you; where would be the good of it? [14]
To expect them to live without frequent twinges is like expecting a doctor's old chaise to go without creaking; if it did, we might be sure the springs were broken. [3]
She was permitted to listen only, and she was most strongly attracted to the very places where she might expect to hear rebellious words and proposals. [10]
I have stuck to it as well as my wandering, Bohemian nature will permit, and while I do not expect you necessarily to feel any pride in such progress as I have made, I have hoped--that you might feel an interest. [9]
They expect me to hide, and drop out of the game. [11]
I am glad to hear that my namesake, whom I never saw and never expect to see, has cut another tooth; but why write four pages on the strength of that domestic occurrence? [6]
We all like to have you lead us, because you do it with such delicate taste and comprehension, and, moreover, with a vigour which one would scarcely expect from you. [10]
I didn't expect to have New York fall into our hands at a blow. [8]
I didn't expect to have a patient in the middle of the plains. [11]
When Mavick arose to go they shook hands even more cordially than at first, and Henderson said: "Well, I expect to hear from you, and remember that our house will always be your home in the city. [4]
Would you expect to find in that awful Leper Settlement a custom worthy to be transplanted to your own country? [5]

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