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Sentences starting with expecting

Expecting high winds, we bring everything into close reef. [4]
Expecting the enemy from behind and not in front, the French separated in their flight and spread out over a distance of twenty-four hours. [2]

Sentences ending with expecting

One half of the great fan of desks was in effect empty, vacant; in the other half several hundred members were bunched and jammed together as solidly as the bristles in a brush; and they also were waiting and expecting. [5]
At least none that I was expecting. [5]
There was no one moment when he launched into great popularity--nay, in detail, he seemed to himself not to have made the strike that ambition is always expecting. [4]
That readiness will not weaken in me, but I and Russia have a right to expect from you all the zeal, firmness, and success which your intellect, military talent, and the courage of the troops you command justify us in expecting. [2]
That was what Mr. Bixby was expecting. [5]
That was what I had been expecting. [5]
As I flew down the road my impulse was to shut my eyes as I turned them to the right or left, and so delay for a moment the ghastly spectacle of mutilation and death I was expecting. [5]
Everybody listened with anxious interest to hear what her claim was going to be, but when her answer came their faces showed that the thing she asked for was not what they had been expecting. [5]

Short sentences using expecting

I was expecting them. [5]
She is expecting me. [10]
Well, I was expecting you. [13]
She was not expecting us? [2]
She was now expecting Hosea. [10]
Goliath was not expecting David. [5]

Sentences containing expecting two or more times

Tell me you told that falsehood out of mere vanity and are sorry for it; that you're not expecting to ever wear the coronet of an earl--" "Truly I am cured--cured this very day--I am not expecting it! [5]
I was expecting to scare them, but I wasn't expecting to scare them to death. [5]
When you stand expecting the overstrained string to snap at any moment, when everyone is expecting the inevitable catastrophe, as many as possible must join hands as closely as they can to withstand the general calamity. [2]

More example sentences with the word expecting in them

By this time, you see, I had gotten used to expecting everything Joan said to come true. [5]
We been expecting you a couple of days and more. [5]
I faced them with my hand on Mr. Stewart's arm, without a thought of what to do next, and expecting violence. [9]
He saw the whips in their red caps galloping along the edge of the ravine, he even saw the hounds, and was expecting a fox to show itself at any moment on the ryefield opposite. [2]
When that picture, which I am daily expecting, arrives, I shall have it framed and hung by the side of Herring's picture of Plenipotentiary, the horse I saw win the Derby in 1834. [6]
Who cherishes anxiety when confidently expecting victory? [10]
But now we were expecting one along every moment, and would see him in broad daylight. [5]
And so this went on, the naked man perishing with anxiety, and expecting every moment to see people come in sight. [5]
We made our way slowly to the mill, and found Mr. Devlin, Ruth, and Roscoe, with Ruth's sister, and one or two other friends, expecting us. [11]
He knows he was then expecting from day to day to turn Republican, and place himself at the head of our organization. [7]
The lady Euryale was still expecting her, and as she kissed her she looked with sincere pleasure into her bright but tearful eyes. [10]
One day he was obliged to remain at the house in expectation of receiving important telegrams, and the only people who appeared at lunch were Lady Lawless, Mrs. Gregory Thorne (who was expecting her husband), Miss Raglan; Pride, and himself. [11]
A small fish was in the frying-pan, crisp and brown and tempting, and one could see that Marget was not expecting such respectable food as this. [5]
Sooner than I was expecting, too. [5]
Angelo accepted, and was expecting Luigi to decline, but he did not, because he knew that the Bible class and the Freethinkers met in the same room, and he wanted to treat his brother to the embarrassment of being caught in free-thinking company. [5]
But Mr. Cluyme was evidently expecting no answer. [9]
Once when he was captain of the 'Crescent City,' I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and momently expecting orders from the hurricane deck, but received none. [5]
The cheerful music-room was a scene of woe till Demetrius came to conduct his brother and Dada to the widow Mary who was expecting them. [10]
We are expecting visitors every day, now, from New York; and afterward some are to come from Elmira. [5]
He received his visitor very pleasantly, expecting, as a matter of course, that he would begin with some new grievance, dyspeptic, neuralgic, bronchitic, or other. [6]
And yet I used to long for him to come, and would get as uneasy as any mother if the day went by without his visit, when I was expecting him. [5]
Sometimes it swelled up and for a moment seemed less remote; but when we were hopefully expecting it to betray its cause and nature, it dulled and sank again, carrying its mystery with it. [5]
Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mere rebuking her for her fall. [2]
He took an uncertain step toward her, as though half expecting her to flee, and stopped. [9]
He never seemed to tire of looking down the gulf, as though expecting some ship. [11]
We were expecting to recognize that mountain whenever or wherever we should run across it. [5]
We are expecting to move to Florence ten or twelve days hence, but if this hot weather continues we shall wait for cooler. [5]
The chief turned to me and said, "I am expecting company to dinner, and shall have to get ready. [5]
Here he ventured to look below, expecting to see Carterette, but there was only the white sand, and no sound save the long wash of the gulf. [11]
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]
Are you going to keep the gentleman expecting us all day? [12]
Each was expecting to hear of houses overwhelmed and families destroyed; but each came with the story that his own household was safe. [6]
He was expecting to be a sort of hero--the creator of a wild panic--and here everybody sat and smiled a mocking smile, and an old woman made fun of his bugbear. [5]
I listened undisturbed to a piece of music that was fifteen minutes long--always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuously and pleasantly disappointed--but when the last note was struck, here came the stream again. [5]
The old man threw back his head, spread out the last page in the book which he had just written, and said defiantly, as though expecting contradiction to his self-deception--"I have learned. [11]
He was pretty thoroughly bewildered; he had come home, a jubilant prodigal, expecting to find everybody wild with joy over his return; and instead had got the cold shoulder and a jail. [5]
I came to this city with a darling object at my heart, expecting to find no obstacle or difficulty in the way of its attainment. [12]
At the justice-room, they found the single gentleman, who had gone straight there, and was expecting them with desperate impatience. [12]
To one of them Mr. King was presented, Mrs. Stimpson--a stout woman with a broad red face and fishy eyes, wearing an elaborate head-dress with purple flowers, and attired as if she were expecting to take a prize. [4]
He is on the watch, and fully expecting you to blunder into it. [5]
Her train to the Town Hall certainly made a very brave show; the fifty freight waggons you are expecting will scarcely form a longer line. [10]
We were expecting the telegrams to begin to arrive at any moment now. [5]
Unheeding Joshua, or the stir in the camp, she again flung herself down with uplifted arms under the sycamore, gazing upward with dilated, tearful eyes, as if expecting a new revelation. [10]
King, fresh from the scenes of the beach, listened a long time, expecting to hear some close counsel on the conduct of life, but he heard nothing except the vaguest emotional exhortation. [4]
He looks always the same--old, and withered, and hollow-eyed, and listless, save that there is about him something which seems to suggest that he is looking for some one, expecting some one--the friends of his youth, perhaps. [5]
The party of the old and dissatisfied, who censured the innovations, turned to him expecting his sympathy in their disapproval of the reforms, simply because he was the son of his father. [2]
The changes in the Mississippi River are great and strange, yet were to be expected; but I was not expecting to live to see Natchez and these other river towns become manufacturing strongholds and railway centers. [5]
And this is the end of the story, the close of which we were all expecting, when Atossa, as I lay under sentence of death, sent me a rose, and made me the happiest of mortals. [10]
Arakcheev looked at the Emperor from under his brow and, sniffing with his red nose, stepped forward from the crowd as if expecting the Emperor to address him. [2]
The day before the count was to return, Sonya noticed that Natasha sat by the drawingroom window all the morning as if expecting something and that she made a sign to an officer who drove past, whom Sonya took to be Anatole. [2]
At Wolf's entrance the baron greeted him with merry banter, and then whispered to him that the regent was expecting him in her private room, where the leaders of the newly arrived musicians had already gone. [10]
I was expecting that, too, but not so soon. [5]
He was expecting that there might be one claimant for the sack--doubtful, however, Goodson being dead--but it never occurred to him that all this crowd might be claimants. [5]
It is believed that some high officers are in the plot I have already been obliged to disarm several of these organizations, and I am daily expecting more serious outbreaks. [7]
Now he knew that he had also lost the woman by whose assistance he was certain of a great success in his own much-disputed course, and Ledscha, if any one, was right in expecting a favourable hearing from the goddess who punished injustice. [10]
The lad knew that Hadrian would be expecting him, still he did not seek his tent. [10]
However, I reflected that as often as any other way, when you are expecting the worst, you get something that is not so bad, after all. [5]
And you are sure, also, that if you chance suddenly to fetch up against the embankment and topple your chimneys overboard, you will have the small comfort of knowing that it is about what you were expecting to do. [5]
I considered $100,000 sufficient to go home with decently, though it was but a small amount compared to what I had been expecting to return with. [5]
The fugitives came straight towards her; again she closed her eyes tightly, expecting every instant to find herself under the horses' feet. [10]
And what seemed still more terrible to her was that since her father's illness began (perhaps even sooner, when she stayed with him expecting something to happen), all the personal desires and hopes that had been forgotten or sleeping within her had awakened. [2]
With strained and startled eyes, she kept her gaze turned on the door, expecting to see it open before her. [11]
There was a single large thick slice of bread by each boarder's plate, and it was observable that he economized it as if he were not expecting it to be duplicated. [5]
Then at least she won't go on expecting him. [2]
She said that she was expecting to have a change in her condition of life, and had asked me up so that I might' have the first news of it. [6]
With wide-open eyes she gazed at the moonlight and the shadows, expecting every moment to see his dead face, and she felt that the silence brooding over the house and within it held her fast. [2]
But no; you see I was an unknown person, among a cruelly oppressed and suspicious people, a people always accustomed to having advantage taken of their helplessness, and never expecting just or kind treatment from any but their own families and very closest intimates. [5]
I'm expecting my salary, and also some dividends from the company, and if they get along in time, I'll go along with you Laura--take you under my wing--you mustn't travel alone. [5]
Now go to rest, and let me stay a while out here; before the star of Isis is extinguished I will be gone, for they have long been expecting me at the temple. [10]
He had been rather expecting us from what Mr. Murchison wrote; he wrote (his son had read out the letter) that Big Tom was to take good care of us, and anybody that Mr. Murchison sent could have the best he'd got. [4]
That night they quartered in the woods, he still expecting (as he had done all this long time of his imprisonment) every houre to be put to one death or other; for all their feasting. [4]
Last year I proposed a sane way--one which I had practiced with success for a quarter of a century--but I wasn't expecting it to get any attention, and it didn't. [5]
She was expecting Prince Andrew any moment and twice that day sent a manservant to the Vozdvizhenka to ascertain whether he had come. [2]
Still slapping his pockets, he kissed the hand of the countess who entered the room and glanced uneasily around, evidently expecting Natasha, who had left off singing but had not yet come into the drawing room. [2]
On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind Pierre was very fond of. [2]
He had entered Pharaoh's palace expecting to be imprisoned or delivered over to the executioner, as soon as he insisted upon following his people, and how speedily the bonds that held him in the Egyptian army had been sundered. [10]
The ladies would perhaps permit him to remain a little longer, as he was expecting confirmation of the news. [10]
It was a perfectly natural question, for these people are and were in the habit of proffering favors and services and then expecting and begging for pay. [5]
She trusted those people, she was not expecting this sort of treatment, and was not on the lookout for it. [5]
While the quoted paragraph about the Procession seems to indicate that Mrs. Eddy is expecting to occupy the First Place in it, that expectation is not definitely avowed. [5]
Then she set out on her way home, expecting to traverse the short distance swiftly and without delay; but, when she had gone only a few paces from the Grieb, a tall man came toward her. [10]
Jack got more out of the Holy Land than anybody else, because the others knew what they were expecting, but it was a land of surprises to him. [5]
While Marcus carried out his brother's instructions Dada was expecting him and Eusebius with the greatest impatience. [10]
He noticed one or two of them looking toward the door, as if expecting somebody or something in that direction. [6]
Two other boarders of mine has given me notice that they was expecting to leave come the first of January. [6]
At the end of January Rodney had to go away, expecting to return in less than a month. [11]
In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: "You cannot imagine what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack," Prince Andrew, whom Boris was expecting, entered the room. [2]
I was ashamed of having exposed my cheap imaginings to him, and was expecting some sarcasms, but it did not happen. [5]
All the Moscow notabilities, all the Rostovs' acquaintances, were at the Razumovskis' chapel, for, as if expecting something to happen, many wealthy families who usually left town for their country estates had not gone away that summer. [2]
My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasili. [2]
Yet he did not leave the old couple immediately; he was expecting two visitors--Barine's mother and Charmian's Nubian maid who, since the birth of little Pyrrhus, had come to the philosopher's every evening. [10]
No, I was not expecting to ever belong to this gentleman whom I have spoken of, but he had something which I expected would belong to me eventually, if he would but visit us often enough. [5]
Although I was not expecting to be invited, I was watching out for it, and was hurt and disappointed when you started to ask me and changed it to, "How soon are you going away? [5]
The family were not expecting brilliant remarks from me, and so they snubbed me sometimes and spanked me the rest. [5]
The Bishop was not expecting any other reply. [5]
The hotel had not been expecting an inundation of two people, and so it seemed that we should have to go home dinnerless. [5]
But it was not a disappointment, for I knew Mrs. le Fay by reputation, and was not expecting anything pleasant. [5]
And literature is not a career, it is just a toss up, a lottery, and woe to you if you once draw a lucky number--you will always be expecting another . [4]
This short man nodded to Dolgorukov as to an intimate friend and stared at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. [2]
I was expecting no returns from that part of the speech, but this was not the case as regarded the rest of it. [5]

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