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To predict or believe that something will happen
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He never expected to be discovered.
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To consider obligatory or required.
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To consider reasonably due.
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You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
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(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
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To wait for; to await.
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To wait; to stay.
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Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
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The expected storm never arrived.
I am a patient person by nature and fully expected to later take them one or two at a time.
He expected to be punished.
This is what I expected from you--I knew your kindness!
The last was a thought he never expected to have.
If he expected a chuckle, he was disappointed.
I never expected him to be capable of treating you well.
I switched boats mid stream and expected you to follow me.
My progress in lip-reading and speech was not what my teachers and I had hoped and expected it would be.
We tend to notice every time the expected effect is triggered by the cause, but may not notice all the times it isn't.
By the confidence in his voice, he expected her not only to agree, but to resume her place on his arm.
By the look of understanding on his face, he knew what she expected to feel.
I didn't know you expected a gold-engraved invitation.
Adrienne expected a sharp response from Mr. Marsh, but he only regarded his wife thoughtfully for a few moments.
Would she be invited along, or would she be expected to stay on the ranch?
He hadn't thought twice about Toni's message that he'd delivered the package from the stash house to his condo until he walked in and discovered the vamp he expected was a woman.
It was Friday, a week day, and the height of the season, so he had expected most of the town's folk to be too busy for political small talk.
He expected to die from starvation.
There too, as everywhere, I sometimes expected the Visitor who never comes.
He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future.
Over supper they talked of the expected foal, the ranch, and everything but why they hadn't talked much for the last four days.
She was ready to hang up but I added the sad news Howie's mother, her aunt Rose, wasn't expected to live.
He didn't even prattle on about some alleged personal experiences in a diamond mine in Africa, a search for gold or other such nonsense he was expected to resurrect or invent.
It was about a foot in diameter at the big end, and he had expected to get a good saw-log, but it was so rotten as to be fit only for fuel, if for that.
He expected the wolf to come his way any moment.
You expected him to come storming after you.
I expected you to go soon.
The worse everything became, especially his own affairs, the better was Pierre pleased and the more evident was it that the catastrophe he expected was approaching.
Lisa leaned over the sack and examined the cookies with the expected enthusiasm.
He had not at all expected such a sight.
What she expected to see when she turned was Sarah's white Plymouth, but the car that stopped before the house was Allen's red Eagle Talon.
She'd been molded to exist for one reason and expected to step aside when her purpose was fulfilled.
You're handling this better than I expected.
That path lies in a direction I never would've expected.
It sounded as if she expected him to be on the mountain.
No, this definitely wasn't what she expected when she made the choices she did long ago to start this chain-of-events.
They expected Lori to return that day, but she didn't.
She expected him to react, but he didn't.
Instead of the horror Deidre expected to see, Daniela's face warmed even more, softening the skin around her eyes.
Uncertain what he expected, his anger was boiling at the silent rejection.
I expected you to take me to a Sanctuary, not here.
It was something she might have expected of Jonathan – someone immature.
I only spoke a few words, as I did not know I was expected to speak until a few minutes before I was called upon.
A skull, a coffin, the Gospel--it seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more.
Next day after her talk with her mother Natasha expected Bolkonski all day, but he did not come.
Kutuzov seemed not to understand what was expected of him.
With a number of renowned restaurants and chefs within the city, making a choice for dinner might be more difficult than expected.
Prices are on the higher side and reservations are expected.
He and Sarah had done far more for her than could have been expected.
However, while noticeable, his damaged appearance was less disagreeable than I expected.
The hospital was much more extensive than I expected.
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