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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:

Answering the phone "in a rather hoarse and velvety voice," Monica said: "I was expecting your call.
It may seem odd to think of five or six years ago as a "different time," but in so many ways (pre-Internet, pre-Gingrich, pre-boom, still expecting the recession of 1990-1991 to come back) it was.
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.
I was expecting ...
How does one know when you are giving, expecting, or hoping for too much?