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525 examples of Expectation in a sentence

I got my paints, and I wasn't a landscape painter, but I wasn't really much of any kind of painter at all, so I had no attachment, no expectation, which allowed me to be reckless and free.
Against all expectation I carried on working, and my kids were and continue to be absolutely fantastic.
I expected my first love to feel like madness, and of course, it met that expectation very well.
My best guess is that Americans, with our positive can-do attitude hold the expectation that our medical care system will fix it, even though it may be a childhood illness for which there is no cure.
In my job as a technology advisor, I've seen so many companies make the well-meaning decisions to put huge investments into technology, only to have the benefits fail to live up to the expectation.
Well, from what I've seen, the expectation from the top management is high but not unreasonable about the benefits from the technology.
I think we all have this hopeful expectation of living into old age.
Flip expectation upside down and shove limitation off a cliff to meet its demise.
Notice I don't use the word "remote," because it sets up the expectation, that some people are essential and some aren't.
I realized that stories like mine were considered to be an exception and never the expectation.
The first two ideas on that list create a pattern, and that pattern creates expectation.
We build friendships, navigate early romantic relationships, get married and bring babies home from the hospital with the expectation that we'll figure it out.
That exchange, it helped me approach my next project with the expectation of success.
I was actually in this solemn landscape of fulfilling an expectation for a show, which is not where I started with these things.
But it's important that I tell you what this projection of heroism and expectation of constant gratitude does to people who are trying to recover.
They all come down to the idea of an expectation of something good that is due to happen.
We're seeing, along with that proliferation of mobile devices, an expectation of availability.
And through the middle of the day, I'm actually surrounded by men my age, and there's only one expectation from them by society.
It would be ideal to have a standard set of norms where, when we got to a post-conflict situation, there was an expectation of these mutual commitments from the three parties.
And that indeed is the architectural mission that I believe is important, is to create spaces that are vibrant, that are pluralistic, that can transform the most prosaic activities, and raise them to a completely different expectation.
Patient capital requires that we have incredible tolerance for risk, a long time horizon in terms of allowing those entrepreneurs time to experiment, to use the market as the best listening device that we have, and the expectation of below-market returns, but outsized social impact.
And this has become such a norm of our professional lives, such a norm and such an expectation.
But the expectation was once you moved in there your commitment was fully to the task at hand, fully to the people around you.
It ties together all this into the power of expectation and the power of belief.
But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should forever remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to.
And together, good as can be expected is limitless when the expectation is that by reshaping our environments, we can change the world.
There was an expectation of Steed participating more in fight scenes, and the continuity seemed as though the writers were struggling to keep up with the actors.
It doesn't come up to my expectation.
And Joss Ackland is always worth watching, so I went into the film with an expectation of it being a potentially worthwhile film.
Knowing this was a blaxploitation film, I started my DVD with a certain expectation.
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