We found 32 examples of how to use expectation in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 32.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | We were filled with joyful expectation. | |
| 2. | We waited with a faint expectation. | |
| 3. | It fell short of my expectation. | |
| 4. | It will prove to be up to expectation. | |
| 5. | These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood. | |
| 6. | Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry. | |
| 7. | The result fell short of his expectation. | |
| 8. | Sorry to say, that expectation was ill-founded. | |
| 9. | My heart bounds with expectation. | |
| 10. | I worked hard in expectation of promotion. | |
| 11. | The newcomer fell short of our expectation. | |
| 12. | We hold out no expectation of success. | |
| 13. | His heart bounded with expectation. | |
| 14. | He fell short of our expectation. | |
| 15. | He failed to get elected contrary to our expectation. | |
| 16. | Her answer corresponds to my expectation. | |
| 17. | Expectation caused her to be flushed with excitement. | |
| 18. | As expectation increases that the dollar will weaken, the foreign exchange market's reaction to US economic indicators has been fairly muted. | |
| 19. | I had little expectation for him. | |
| 20. | A sense of expectation is hanging in the air. | |
| 21. | The doctor offered the child a lollipop. Against expectation the child said he preferred no lollipop and no jab to getting the immunisation and lollipop. | |
| 22. | War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. | |
| 23. | Thus was Daphnis delivered from two perils—from the pirates and from drowning, and in a manner beyond all expectation. | |
| 24. | Chloe, who, till then, had never heard an echo, looked first at the sea and listened to the boatmen as they sang, and then turned round to the woods in expectation of seeing the other men who, as she imagined, were responding to the chorus. | |
| 25. | Fear is a suffering produced by the expectation of some evil. |