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Example sentences for "expects"

Lexicographically close words:
expectorant; expectorate; expectorated; expectorating; expectoration; expedience; expediencies; expediency; expedient; expedientes
  1. Indeed, the customer ordinarily counts the amount of his "line" as a part of his working capital and expects to keep it in use a large part, if not all, of the time.

  2. Farmers, manufacturers, and merchants both buy on time and sell on time, and are thus both debtors and creditors, and each expects that his sales will ultimately pay for his purchases.

  3. A person buys on time and sells on time and expects to pay for his purchases by the proceeds of his sales.

  4. I have heard men give the most confident opinions upon subjects which they don't in the least understand, which nobody expects them to understand, nor have they had any opportunity for acquiring the requisite knowledge.

  5. Turner expects everyone to bow and scrape before him since he's the richest man in town and owns the biggest factory besides the biggest hill.

  6. Reed is preparing for a climactic change which he expects is going to effect Georgia in the next half century," the recreational director explained, in all apparent seriousness.

  7. His majesty expects me at nine o'clock at the palace of St. James's: will you be there at the same time with me?

  8. His majesty is very anxious to speak to you, and expects you at the Louvre.

  9. What has happened, and who can the Ariadne be who expects me so impatiently.

  10. The latter got up, and then sat down with the countenance of a man who expects death.

  11. Expects to be secretary to Lord Hertford, as Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 287.

  12. If Gertrude expects me to return on bended marrow bones and sue for forgiveness, I am certain she is mistaken.

  13. At such times it often happens that the sky is overcast; and thus it comes about that the unwary traveller, by rashly baring his legs and arms, suffers severe sun-burns when he least expects it.

  14. A native rarely refuses anything that is asked; but, on the other hand, he is not accustomed to offer anything spontaneously except when he expects an equivalent in return.

  15. If, as occasionally happens, an income is allowed a bride by her parents, she expects to spend it on her toilets or pleasures.

  16. So striking is this resemblance that at times one expects to hear the long-drawn moans peculiar to the concertina issuing from those portals.

  17. When a hostess puts nine o’clock on her card of invitation she expects her guests at eleven or half-past, and would be much embarrassed to be taken literally.

  18. As she moves and speaks one almost expects to hear the quick breath coming and going through her quivering nostrils, and see foam on her full lips.

  19. This was, and is yet, one of the big reasons shacks are so numerous in a town in a new country, which expects a road but knows not which way it will come; and the officials of the C.

  20. In France and Italy such small differences do not exasperate, because they ate known to exist; one expects them; they are benighted foreigners who know no better.

  21. It receives nothing and expects nothing as a free gift of God.

  22. And now he expects me to cover all the "Society" and "Church Doings.

  23. Mildred expects me down there for supper,' said Humphrey.

  24. The South, on the contrary, expects people who are to be elected to clubs and become full members of the community to agree with the majority; and on the negro question insists that all Whites stand together.

  25. Neither banker nor planter expects to lose money; both are subject to heavy deductions by the failure of planters and the departure of hands, and hence they recoup themselves from those who will pay.

  26. My uncle expects me to buy my own clothes.

  27. But I should like to know how he expects to get more money out of me.

  28. I wonder if he expects me to pay for it," Wheeler asked himself anxiously.

  29. You think she's perfect, because she never raises her voice above a certain pitch, and she expects all you men to lie down and let her walk over you.

  30. The girls are coming to my garden party to-morrow, and as my mother also expects guests, I'm sure she'd be glad if you would come.

  31. No one expects glasses to cure weak eyes, no one expects them to improve the sight so much that glasses won't need to be worn.

  32. In general, the patient expects to receive help and the nurse expects to give it.

  33. If the Muzawwir visit the home of his Zair, he expects to be treated with the utmost hospitality, and to depart with a handsome present.

  34. In Egypt, every woman expects to be addressed as "O lady!

  35. Hungary hailed in me the man from whom she expects artistic illustriousness, after all the illustrious soldiers and politicians she has so plentifully produced.

  36. The maiden expects protestation of love, and her ideals and promises fulfilled.

  37. The youth expects the perpetual beauty, smile and charm of the ballroom, reception or parlor.

  38. At the beginning the mistress should establish her standard about this sort of thing as she does about sweeping, dusting, and other cleaning, and she must never relax her requirements if she expects to have her house properly kept.

  39. The mistress must give her maids what they need to do their work well before she expects to receive good work from them, and having done this shall demand that they keep their tools in order.

  40. The story that I am now about to tell you is such a one as certainly nobody expects to hear from me; it is namely, the story of a night-watchman.

  41. One expects steady weather in October; so it was really not extraordinary that the next morning should break fair and quiet, with a sunny haze lying over the river.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.