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4669 examples of Expected in a sentence

When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me.
So, pretty early on in my investigations I realized what I was finding was not what I expected to find, which was, quite frankly, a lot of beer can pyramids and overstuffed couches and flat-screen TVs.
There are the journalist interviews, which are the interrogation that is expected.
During this expedition I expected him to be killed outright, and us as well.
But we were expected to have doubts; we're expected to have fears.
And if you're in a Moai you're expected to share the bounty if you encounter luck, and if things go bad, child gets sick, parent dies, you always have somebody who has your back.
And the difference is even more pronounced among men, who are expected to live about 11 years longer than their American counterparts.
That one was way more difficult than I had expected.
In our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the expected quality of their life, we have to make sure that we don't put the first brick in a wall that will actually disable someone.
So, you tell me you sleep better than expected.
I expected them to say to Rob, "Hold on.
I expected him to be incoherent, but, in fact, he walked into the tent and said to me, "Hi, Ken.
What the scientists there told me was that when protected this first marine reserve in 1975, they hoped and expected that certain things might happen.
I was just happy it wasn't a C- or a D. But the "good as can be expected" comment ... even at that young age, it didn't seem right.
And together, good as can be expected is limitless when the expectation is that by reshaping our environments, we can change the world.
If you're a woman writer from the Muslim world, like me, then you are expected to write the stories of Muslim women and, preferably, the unhappy stories of unhappy Muslim women.
You're expected to write informative, poignant and characteristic stories and leave the experimental and avant-garde to your Western colleagues.
Multicultural writers are expected to tell real stories, not so much the imaginary.
So I was sort of expected to know a little about the world.
I knew even then that I would encounter cultural differences and misunderstandings, but they popped up when I least expected it.
So, in our study, we did find quite high levels, as we expected, of these flame retardants in the harbor seals' bodies.
We're now 6.8 billion people, and we're expected to be 9 billion people by 2050.
And so I compared what I got to what I expected, and what I got was disappointing in comparison to what I expected.
I didn't have have many personal friends to spend time with, but I was expected to perform these prescribed duties.
And this is exactly what you expected, isn't it?
Being far from a real product, this free-form installation hooked the imagination of the visiting architects much more than we expected.
From the meaningless gimmicks of the roman soldiers, to simply some real bad wrestling (doink vs Crush being the worst match) to simply bad match making (Scott "Razor Ramon vs Bob Backlund, how can you have one of the greatest mat wrestlers, making a comeback, and working his first wrestlemania, face a power wrestler who was undefeated at the time), this is a PPV that even the WWE has since admitted, was way below what the expected.
His accent was a disaster as expected.
The editing and the flow of the movie is also not something you would have expected from Deepa.
As expected, things are going to get weird; when this young man turns into a mask wearing monster and roams the beaches scouting out nice looking party girls to make his slaves.
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