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Example sentences for "never expected"

  • Mr Sandford tells me that, as he looked at his antagonist's evil eye, he never expected to hear the captain speak again.

  • And poor Staghorn here, he never expected such an ending.

  • They told me you was gone away to be killed by the Frenchmen, and I never expected to see you more; that I didn't.

  • I have gained the prize for which all are contending; and though it has been found within the sacred inclosures of religion, where I never expected to find it, yet ought I to cast it from me?

  • I never expected to see such a day as this; and I was thinking, when you were preaching in the barn, that when Zaccheus got up in the morning he little thought what would happen to him before night.

  • There and then I felt what I never expected to feel; and if the strange commotion had been predicted by an angel of God, I should have ridiculed it as a mere phantom.

  • I never expected that it could be so painful.

  • Well, I never expected to see you here," he said, coming up to Nekhludoff, and smiling only with his lips while his eyes remained sad.

  • I never expected to get home, or even off of the field, but I was bound to do all I could.

  • While I remained at City Point, I wrote to all my friends at home, for I never expected to come home again.

  • I never expected to behold them again; But morning came at last, and the bombardment around Petersburg was renewed.

  • Let me tell you something that I never told to anyone, that I never expected to tell.

  • I never expected to mention the incident to anyone again.

  • So I am going to tell you something that I never expected I should tell to a lady.

  • Such pillows, and such arches, and such ornaments, I never expected to see till I got through with this planet anyway.

  • Josiah Allen and I wuz a-travellin' way off to places too fur to be reached only by our strainin' fancy--places that we never expected or drempt that we could see with our mortal eyes only in a gography.

  • Of all the opposed reviews, I think this the only quite fair one, and I never expected to see one.

  • I never expected that my Geology would ever have been worth the consideration of such men as Lyell, who has been to me, since my return, a most active friend.

  • Well, well; many's the time he has told us about his twin girls, but I never expected to see one of them here.

  • I never expected to meet you here," and Mr. Plaisted shook hands with his former partner.

  • I never expected to set eyes on the man again, and here we are planning to visit his home.

  • I never expected to see anything like that.

  • Of course, I've read about trapping beaver, but I never expected to see it done.

  • I never expected to see anything quite like that.

  • I never expected you to turn out such a prima donna, though there is a tone in your voice that always makes me wish to cry, as if that would be the height of enjoyment.

  • He says he never expected to enjoy himself so much in the bush.

  • I have seen the inside of a real palace, and I never expected such an honor.

  • When I left the city last night I never expected to return.

  • I never expected to enter the palace of the grand duke of Ehrenstein," Grumbach added.

  • So the drawings were scrutinised by that Eye, and I must say I never expected things to go so well.

  • I never expected anything so perfectly satisfactory and so like the realisation of a castle in the air as the events of this day.

  • I never expected to be so touched by what I have seen of these pageants and rejoicings, and to feel so much personal affection for the Queen as I have done through this wonderful week.

  • Oh, I was very fairly tried; but I never expected to be brought in mad.

  • I never expected to be condemned for high treason.

  • I never expected to see him so perfectly recovered.

  • Only I never expected to get paid for stopping a runaway horse," he added as he looked at the roll of bills.

  • I never expected to see myself like that.

  • I never expected a better opportunity would present itself for my escape.

  • I never expected to see her again, for I supposed that she was sold.

  • I informed them that I knew I was to be sold in the Louisville slave market, or in New Orleans, and I never expected to see my family again.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never 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:
    attend school; full consideration; never been; never beheld; never come; never could; never had; never hearn; never know; never learned; never leave; never left; never like; never liked; never lost; never made; never meant; never remember; never seemed; never speak; never want; never wanted; never would cry old; never wrote; older brother; precisely because