EXPECTATION in a Sentence

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For EXPECTATION, below is one of 420 sentences:
He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPECTATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expectation
 n.  anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
 n.  belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  I crept into my hovel and remained in silent expectation of the accustomed hour when the family arose.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  The being finished speaking and fixed his looks upon me in the expectation of a reply.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
4  These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
6  But they had no curiosity to see how Mr. and Mrs. Palmer ate their dinner, and no expectation of pleasure from them in any other way.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  They were obliged to put an end to such an expectation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
8  The disappointment of the evening before seemed forgotten in the expectation of what was to happen that day.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
9  And Marianne was in spirits; happy in the mildness of the weather, and still happier in her expectation of a frost.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
10  From this moment her mind was never quiet; the expectation of seeing him every hour of the day, made her unfit for any thing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
11  He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35
12  But that was not enough; for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36
13  The Miss Steeles removed to Harley Street, and all that reached Elinor of their influence there, strengthened her expectation of the event.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36
14  Her own happiness, and her own spirits, were at least very certain; and she joined Mrs. Jennings most heartily in her expectation of their being all comfortably together in Delaford Parsonage before Michaelmas.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
15  Mr. Harris, who attended her every day, still talked boldly of a speedy recovery, and Miss Dashwood was equally sanguine; but the expectation of the others was by no means so cheerful.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Harry expects to follow the profession of lawyer.
17  Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
18  He said he expects Senate approval as well.
19  Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
20  The Prime Minister expects strong support from the Labour backbenches.
21  In addition, he expects inflation to remain puny because we have so much unused capacity.
22  When a roster is assembled, Patrick expects the team to start practicing in August.
23  He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.
24  We expect to announce details of the scheme later this week.
25  The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
26  I always expect total honesty from my employees.
27  I didn't expect to get the red carpet treatment.
28  Don't try so hard,the best things come when you lease expect them to.
29  He's merely a boy - you can't expect him to understand.
30  I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him.