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Example sentences for: expecting

How can you use “expecting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Noticing there is a hypothetical protein (b0177) in the lpxD gene cluster, we then carried out sequence analysis on this gene and its encoded protein, expecting that it might be associated with the outer membrane of the cell.
We believe that expecting readers to share the cost, as they do in print, is the only way serious journalism on the Web can be self-supporting.
However, Kuwaiti caterers who have been expecting a summer slump in business are now looking forward to a boom, the paper said.
Fischetti cautions against expecting that gladsome state to last forever, but he points out that even if widespread resistance takes the same 40 or 50 years that antibiotics required to become significantly resistant, phage enzymes could buy researchers decades for inventing other approaches.
One begins to get some idea of the extent of the problem reading Parkinson's list of just a few of the colloquial expressions for pregnancy: Away the trip (Scottish working class), to be caught, to be expecting, to be having a baby, to be in a delicate condition, to be in an interesting condition, to be in pig, to be in pod, to be in the family way, to be in the pudding club, to be preggers, to be so, to be up the pole, to be up the stick, to catch on, to catch the virus, to fall for a baby, to have a bun in the oven, to have a touch of the sun.