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Sentences ending with expects

A part of her tactics was the pressure of public opinion, so far as society represents it--that is, what society expects. [4]

Short sentences using expects

Nobody expects better of her. [5]
Your father expects it. [2]

Sentences containing expects two or more times

You see, we've mostly got the idea that an Englishman expects from his wife what an American woman expects from her husband. [11]
It expects thrift, it expects prosperity, but its foundations are in the moral and spiritual life. [4]

More example sentences with the word expects in them

Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
I know and trust him, and whoever expects aught else will sooner or later, by my son's course of action, be proved a liar. [10]
A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
He calls his town Mayopolis, and expects to be mayor of it; his wife, however, calls the town Maybe. [4]
In the letter to Twichell, which follows, there is mention of two unfinished manuscripts which he expects to resume. [5]
It expects rather to record a continually perfected machinery, a life in which not only speech but ideas are brought into rule. [4]
He expects you to maintain your position there as becomes a soldier and a general. [7]
One always expects to hear of her as the heroine of an adventure. [4]
The publics expects to be interested, and nothing would interest it more than to be told that the success of 'Every Other Week' sprang from the first application of the principle of Live and let Live to a literary enterprise. [8]
There he expects to be free from time-killing business, and to grant his mind that which he has long desired and a thousand duties forced him to withhold. [10]
At this moment the amphitheatre looked like a beehive, of which every cell seems to be full, but in which a whole swarm expects yet to find room. [10]
Blessed be he that expects nothing, for he'll get it, sure. [11]
He expects to spend this winter in Munich and will see us often, he said. [5]
One has heard so much of this organ, that he expects impossibilities, and is at first almost disappointed, although it is not long in discovering its vast compass, and its wonderful imitations, now of a full orchestra, and again of a single instrument. [4]
Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [5]
It will not ruin me quite, even if I pay for a supper for all three of us, and on a holiday one expects to spend something. [10]
There are not quite so many "awfuls" and "awfullys" as one expects to find in young ladies' letters, but there are two "weirds," which may be considered a fair allowance. [6]
Byron made a poor business of it, and could not think of anything to say, at the last moment but, "Augusta--sister--Lady Byron--tell Harriet Beecher Stowe"--etc., etc.,--but Shakespeare was ready and said, "England expects every man to do his duty! [5]
It is humor or fun such as one expects, let us say, from the peasants of Thomas Hardy, outside of Hardy's books. [5]
In the article of woman, for instance, she may not become the being that the convention expects, but there may appear a Woman of whom all the Aspasias and Helens were only the faintest types. [4]
There isn't one of us really knows what she's doing it for, or what she expects to happen when she's done it. [8]
In his letter of January 8th we note that he expects to go to Elmira for a few days as soon as he has time. [5]
He says he never expects to run out of mementoes of St. Paul as long as he is in reach of a sand-bank. [5]
Society expects every man to have certain things in his garden. [4]
He who so loudly boasts his knowledge of mankind expects this impossibility from the woman who revealed her inmost soul to him as fully as he concealed his from her. [10]
The Captain waited like a man who expects and deserve, the severest verdict. [9]
You can't revere his gods or his politics, and no one expects you to do that, but you could respect his belief in them if you tried hard enough; and you could respect him, too, if you tried hard enough. [5]
At these parties his feelings were like those of a conjuror who always expects his trick to be found out at any moment. [2]
She probably expects him to come with his bungalow, and his sedan, and his palanquin, and his elephants, and his retinue of servants, and his principalities, and his powers, and his ha--(no, not that), and his chowchow, and his--I scarcely know what besides. [4]
And I say here to you, if any one expects of me--in case of my election--that I will do anything not signified by our Republican platform and my answers here to-day, I tell you very frankly that person will be deceived. [7]
Ulrich had awaited her, as a criminal expects his sentence. [10]
Nobody but a fool expects him to. [6]
Having learned from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this and always expects the law that he has learned to be fulfilled. [2]
As this government expects redress from other powers when similar injuries are inflicted by persons in their service upon citizens of the United States, we must be prepared to do justice to foreigners. [7]
He is a decided partisan, and I believe expects to be removed. [7]
A French patient complains that his blood heats him, and expects his doctor to bleed him. [3]
How easily, when Caius sees Cnejus lavish gold where silver or copper would serve, he thinks of Martial's apt words: 'Who gives great gifts, expects great gifts again. [10]
If Jones should arrive here a week or ten days from now (as he expects to do,) and should not approve, and shouldn't buy any royalties, my deal with Arnot would not be symmetrically square, and then how could I refund? [5]
Again, it is a singular omission in this message that it nowhere intimates when the President expects the war to terminate. [7]
The waiter expects a quarter at breakfast--and gets it. [5]

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