Synonym: anticipate, await, hope, look for, suppose, think. Antonym: despair. Similar words: expected, unexpected, expert, expense, expertise, experiment, experience, experienced. Meaning: [ɪk'spekt] v. 1. regard something as probable or likely 2. consider obligatory; request and expect 3. look forward to the probable occurrence of 4. consider reasonable or due 5. be pregnant with 6. look forward to the birth of a child.
1. Bear with evil and
expect good.
2. We shall never have friends if we
expect to find them without fault.
3. What do you
expect from a pig but a grunt?
4. Those who
expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
5. If you are successful, you can expect promotion.
6. You can't expect him to be perfect.nobody is.
7. I expect he'll pass the examination.
8. She knows broadly what to expect.
9. Employees expect flexibility in the workplace.
10. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery.
11. Despair doubled expect change twice.
12. Don't expect sympathy from me!
13. They expect a Cabinet reshuffle in the summer.
14. It would be unwise to expect too much.
15. How silly of me to expect them to help!
16. When do you expect him back?
17. Oh very funny! You expect me to believe that?
18. I had no preconceptions about what to expect.
19. I always expect total honesty from my employees.
20. Both leaders seemed to expect measurable progress.
21. I expect to be back within a week.
22. I don't expect anything in reward.
23. Political analysts expect the Conservatives to win.
24. Don't expect it to improve overnight.
25. We can expect changes in the political landscape.
26. Expect variable cloudiness and fog tomorrow.
27. I had been warned what to expect.
28. He will expect some reward after working so hard.
29. When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak(Sentencedict), then you may
expect a soak.
30. He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not
expect him to share the danger.
1. I expect he'll pass the examination.
2. She knows broadly what to expect.
3. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery.
4. Don't expect sympathy from me!
5. They expect a Cabinet reshuffle in the summer.
6. How silly of me to expect them to help!
7. When do you expect him back?
8. Oh very funny! You expect me to believe that?
9. I always expect total honesty from my employees.
10. Both leaders seemed to expect measurable progress.
11. Political analysts expect the Conservatives to win.
12. Don't expect it to improve overnight.
13. We can expect changes in the political landscape.
14. Expect variable cloudiness and fog tomorrow.
15. I had been warned what to expect.
16. I didn't expect him to become a successful writer.
17. The public expect high standards from any large organization.
18. You cannot expect that she should receive him.
19. You can't realistically expect to win the whole competition.
20. Do you really expect me to believe you?
21. It was good luck that I met you here; I did not expect to see you.
22. Stella, of all people, is the last one I'd expect to see at the club.
23. We expect to see further improvement over the coming year.
24. With an upward trend in inflation, you expect prices to rise.
25. He's the last person I'd expect to be mixed up in something like this.
26. Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
27. It is unrealistic to expect these changes to happen overnight.
28. That's not the sort of behaviour I expect of you!
29. If you play the fool, and lose a good job on consequence , you can hardly expect much sympathy.
30. I didn't expect to come home and find him gone.
More similar words: expected, unexpected, expert, expense, expertise, experiment, experience, experienced, expedition, experimental, at the expense of, aspect, suspect, spectrum, prospect, inspector, spectacle, perspective, inspection, introspect, spectacular, respectively, with respect to, introspection, irrespective of, expand, export, expose, explore, explain.