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Example sentences for "might expect"

  • Moreover, when the Gesta proceeds to describe Earl William of Gloucester as devoted to his own pleasures rather than to war,[9] we see that the conduct so incredible in his father would in him be what we might expect.

  • I had received a communication from the Governor on Saturday night, to know when I would move, which I answered, that he might expect me shortly, at any time.

  • I was to advise him after he left whether he might expect it.

  • Above all, we might expect that in the Psalms there would be many allusions to the notes of the various birds which have formed such fruitful themes for the poets of later times.

  • Those which reside in England reside also for the most part in Palestine, while the greater part of the migratory birds pass, as we might expect, into the Holy Land and the neighbouring countries.

  • The most interesting parts of the Shepherd’s Kalendar are of this description; for Spenser has not displayed the powers of his own imagination so strongly as we might expect in pictures of natural scenery.

  • The conflict between the two parties in Germany seems to have been less arduous than we might expect.

  • The Simia Inues, or Barbary ape, seems to be one, as we might expect.

  • The first book printed in Spain was on the very subject we might expect to precede all others, the Conception of the Virgin.

  • As we might expect, the spirit of chivalry is not lacking in Arabic song and story.

  • With the Babylonians it is the goddess Allat whose power controls the realm of the dead; and even her scribe, contrary to what we might expect, was also a woman, whose name was Belit-Iseri.

  • The matter of marriage is more completely guarded among the tribes of Africa and the Indo-Pacific than we might expect of the people of their grade of culture.

  • We find, as we might expect, that it is not on Man simply as individual that stress is here laid.

  • If so we might expect to encounter them on their return; or, if first perceived, we might fall into an ambuscade.

  • I might expect no very courteous treatment at their hands.

  • As I drew near to the huntress-maiden, I was speculating on the reception I might expect, and the explanation I ought to give.

  • These cases are unquestionably of a very cogent nature, and appear of themselves to prove that apogamy alone is not invariably capable of inducing divergence--at any rate, so rapidly as we might expect.

  • He also treats just in the way we might expect the dictum that stupidity means badness.

  • In all the pyramids of Ghizeh, indeed, there is such a tunnelling as we might expect on almost any theory of the relation of the smaller pyramids to the great one.

  • Here, therefore, if anywhere, we might expect to find hypogene formations of Eocene date breaking out in the central axis or most disturbed region of the loftiest chain in Europe.

  • A large number of the 290 species are common to all the localities, those peculiar to each not being more numerous than we might expect to find in different bays of the same sea.

  • But all water-birds were probably land-birds once, so that we might expect sometimes to see in their young that old instinct of taking refuge there, which had become reversed in the parents.

  • The first of these questions was settled in the affirmative, as we might expect; in the interests of uniformity it was desirable that the maps should be as nearly similar as possible.

  • As we might expect an eccentricity [inclination?

  • By the laws of chance we might expect, in any passage of three hundred lines, taken at random anywhere in Beowulf, to find something which occurred only in one other passage elsewhere in the poem.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "might expect" 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:
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