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Example sentences for "fully expected"

  • As for me, I spent the night doing sentry-go, for I fully expected to receive a visit from the shore some time during the hours of darkness.

  • The rock towards which we were running rose before us, but, yet near as it was, the fire came roaring on so rapidly that I fully expected it to overtake us.

  • I fully expected to be trampled to death before many minutes had passed, or to be tossed high in the air over their shaggy backs.

  • As the light of our torches fell on it, we fully expected to see Mr Bruin stalk forth and inquire what we wanted.

  • He fully expected to be flayed alive, or roasted over a slow fire, or shot to death with arrows aimed so as to avoid vital parts.

  • Setting out, we took our way along the banks of the river, near which we fully expected to fall in with several raccoons.

  • I felt that I had deserved all the hardships I had endured, and I fully expected to be wrecked again.

  • Flushed with our success, we fully expected that we were going to make all the three Frenchmen strike.

  • I fully expected to see the old lady sitting in her arm-chair and knitting, as I had when I was last there.

  • This time, just as I fully expected to see him toss out the sand, he rose up with a triumphant look on his yellow face, and caught sight of us.

  • There was a deeper growl, and two fierce eyes glared up at me, while I fully expected that my hand would be seized.

  • At night the clouds gathered heavily around, and the weather being mild and soft, I fully expected rain; after dark, however, the wind rose high and the threatened storm passed away.

  • He says he fully expected me home, and had fitted up a quarter for me in his house.

  • The army we saw formed upon the heights in the rear of this place, and this was called the position that we were to fight upon—at least, we fully expected it from present appearances.

  • After the absurd conduct and the defeat of Tayib Agha at Moogi, I fully expected to have to fight my way through; but upon arrival in that district the natives knew me, and we were not molested.

  • I fully expected a difficulty with the natives when we should attempt to drive the herd of strange cattle through the jungle path to Gondokoro.

  • I gave orders that on the morrow all the troops were to appear in their best uniforms, as we were only six miles from Fatiko, the principal station, where I fully expected to meet Abou Saood himself.

  • I fully expected that we should be attacked by the natives in great force during this operation, which necessitated a division of my force upon both banks of the Nile.

  • I fully expected that I should be able to bring him to bay.

  • That little mattered, though, as I fully expected to have my head in another moment in as bad a condition.

  • I had often read of waves running mountains high in books of poetry and other works, and I fully expected to see them as high, as the mast-heads.

  • All this time we fully expected to see the mother return to the assistance of her charge, but still she kept away.

  • I fully expected to make a bad start on my new journey.

  • I fully expected to be snubbed, perhaps cursed, by that R.

  • I fully expected him to say that the whole party would leave at once.

  • As may be supposed, there was great rejoicing on board; all our troubles and misfortunes were forgotten, and we fully expected to be in harbour the next day.

  • We fully expected an abundance of hot work.

  • I fully expected to lose my anchor and cable, but when I came to weigh at daylight the next morning I was fortunate enough to save them both.

  • They instantly accused us of attacking them, and I fully expected that we should be carried off into durance vile.

  • As the enemy were in the neighbouring island, it was probable that they would send a force across to capture Nevis, so that we fully expected to have work to do, as the governor was resolved to oppose them.

  • In spite of an effort to seem unconcerned, Rob could not resist the desire to glance at his comrade at the mention of the monkey, and, as he fully expected, even though he could not check it, there was Joe glaring at him fiercely.

  • He fully expected to be placed under arrest and severely punished, should it be discovered by the General that they had got off.

  • Some confusion and delay were caused by the first two ditches, but these having been passed, the Duke, believing no obstruction existed between him and the royal camp, fully expected to succeed in his enterprise.

  • It was here that during his progress he had been received with such remarkable honours, and he fully expected now to receive a similar treatment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fully expected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    array against; betake themselves; corresponding degree; defend herself; dinner coffee; each school; find himself; fully armed; fully assured; fully aware; fully convinced; fully described; fully developed; fully illustrated; fully persuaded; looked like; magnetic waves; middle life; mind being; moment since; once despatched; pretty while; speaking world; vacuum tube; west tower; western hemlock