I consulted with Mr Fannin, and we were both of opinion that we could expect to reap no other advantage than the poor satisfaction of killing some more of the savages.
As the world has but a very imperfect knowledge of this shore, I thought the coasting of it would be of more advantage, both to navigation and to geography, than any thing I could expect to find in a higher latitude.
When I found this, I easily saw there was no remedy, but we must engage; and as we knew we could expect no quarter from those scoundrels the Portuguese, a nation I had an original aversion to, I let Captain Wilmot know how it was.
If I discovered it, the least thing I could expect was to lose my husband, for he was too nice and too honest a man to have continued my husband after he had known I had been his sister; so that I was perplexed to the last degree.
From the frigate, therefore, I knew that I could expect no help.
If they did, we well knew that we could expect no mercy from them.
I earnestly prayed that such might not be our fate, and yet I could not see what better we could expect.
The slower stream had a chance to deposit its silt, and if the high water had been very quiet, we could expect to find it soft, or boggy.
These were also the only places on our 425-mile run to Bright Angel Trail where we could expect to see any people, so we were informed.
My reception has been everything I could expect or wish; but your experience will tell you that little can be inferred from this until real business is entered upon.
On the other hand, my friends' letters are as affectionate and tender as I could expect, and more than from my long neglect I deserved.
In this compulsion he had no cause to complain; a foreigner meddling with the politics of the country in which he was only accidentally resident, could expect no deferential consideration from the government.
The government was in the possession of the power, and in self- defence he could expect no other course towards him than what he did experience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could expect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
