Word Finder - expect

definition

To predict or believe that something will happen

example

He never expected to be discovered.

synonyms

• anticipate
• hope
• look for

definition

To consider obligatory or required.

synonyms

• call for
• demand

definition

To consider reasonably due.

example

You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.

synonyms

• hope
• want
• wish

definition

(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

definition

To wait for; to await.

synonyms

• await

definition

To wait; to stay.

synonyms

• wait

I didn't expect you so soon.

I expect nothing less from you.

I don't expect you to start now.

She didn't expect it to bother her as much as it did.

She didn't expect Death to listen.

Don't expect anything from Jule.

I always expect trouble.

Just didn't expect to see … me … again.

Sometimes I come in for lunch and sometimes I'd expect you to pack me a lunch.

Did she expect him to?

We can't expect them to make an exception for us.

How could I expect more?

They don't expect him to live.

I expect he has forgotten me.

We have come to expect due process for all.

She didn't expect to be so suddenly written off by everyone.

I don't expect to see him back, Sadie said.

With the rest of her life in disarray, she didn't expect her apartment to look … normal.

Deidre didn't expect to see it, not after how he'd treated her the past few days.

What do you expect from me?

She didn't expect to find the human alive, let alone of a mindset to make a joke.

I expect to take piano lessons sometime....

You expect to make an income out of the government?

I don't even expect to let you live tonight.

It.s a three-hour trek, so you can expect them between five and six.

The princess felt this, and as if wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, she turned to his father.

I didn't expect you to arrive this way.

I didn't expect her to be …so different.

I don't expect you to believe me.

Jule wasn't sure what to expect when she knelt beside him.

When do you expect him?

The behavior I expect of you.

Do not expect this to be a uniformly reassuring journey; it may be more of a roller-coaster ride with some rather bleak descents.

Pete would expect Bordeaux to take care of her.

I don't expect him to fix it.

What do you expect?

How could she expect Denton to understand her dream of purchasing the place?

To this question I shall expect from you an answer in plain terms according to your deliberate judgment.

Expect solutions in the future to come from countries you couldn't find on a map today.

It will do things you don't expect a house to do.

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.

The unknown can be worse than reality, and she had no idea what to expect on the flight.

He didn't expect his portal to the underworld to be waiting and wasn't disappointed.

With more than thirty thousand genes in your body, you can't expect them all to have cool names.

That is what we expect to be able to do, because it is theoretically possible in a hundred different ways.

Three centuries later, it became a hereditary right and came with a daily ration of two pounds of bread ("Hey, you don't expect us to cook the free grain, do you?") and occasionally included meat, olive oil, and salt.

I expect the Minister (Barclay de Tolly) has already reported the abandonment of Smolensk to the enemy.

Out of an army of a hundred thousand we must expect at least twenty thousand wounded, and we haven't stretchers, or bunks, or dressers, or doctors enough for six thousand.

Dusty couldn't kill him and didn't expect to.

She didn't expect it; she expected him to lie rather than point out the flaws in her desperate logic.