How to use expectation in a sentence

Examples of expectation by meaning

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• Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.From the entry beyond
• The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.From the entry diverge
• The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.From the entry surpass
• A strictly stationary and mixing process with finite expectation satisfies a Law of Large Numbers.From the entry mixing
• Against all expectations, the accused managed to bring forth convincing evidence of his innocence.From the entry bring forth
• If a gambler repeatedly plays a game with negative expectation, his payoff over time is a supermartingale.From the entry supermartingale
• I try to set low expectations and not to get my hopes up.From the entry get one's hopes up
• If a gambler repeatedly plays a game with positive expectation, his payoff over time is a submartingale.From the entry submartingale
• The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.From the entry exceed
• In a friendship, reciprocity occurs where the contribution of each party meets the expectations of the other party.From the entry reciprocity
• The movie didn't come up to our expectations.From the entry come up
• Last's night enjoyment went beyond my expectations.From the entry go beyond
• In the course of managing your expectations, you'll need to account for the usual amount of pettiness and dishonesty among your fellow humans lol.From the entry lol
• Theorists of 18th- and 19th-century revolutions emphasized the importance of rising expectations as a catalyst.2026 June 2, Michael Kimmage, “Putin Has No Good Way Out of His War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry catalyst
• You simply cannot build a political coalition on the expectation that everybody’s going to do the reading.2025 November 25, Adam Mastroianni, “Secrets of the ancient memelords: or: pedants 'n' pinheads”, in Experimental History [Substack…. From the entry folksy
• That expectation of dramatic revelations has become a defining feature of MAGA-era politics.2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek. From the entry deep state
• It turns out, there’s research that backs up the usefulness of lowering our expectations.2024 May 14, Clay Drinko, “Lower Your Expectations”, in Psychology Today. From the entry turn out
• And if all this fails, just sing a little sing-songy tune: “Lower your expectations.”2024 May 14, Clay Drinko, “Lower Your Expectations”, in Psychology Today. From the entry sing-songy
• Move Forward, which has built a strong following among young people, appeared to have outperformed expectations.2023 May 14, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Thitipol Panyalimpanun, “Opposition parties take lead in Thai election”, in The Guardian. From the entry following
• Barber, who used the phrase “train wreck” to describe her expectations for the project.2023 August 30, Jessica Testa, quoting Grace Barber, “The Most Famous Woman in Men’s Tennis”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from…. From the entry coast
• What are the challenges and expectations from leadership in the new normal?2021 October 30, K. S Ahluwalia, LORD INDARJIT SINGH CBE, Dr Rajan Samuel, Harpreet Ahluwalia, Rev Thomas George, Gurpreet Singh Kapoor…. From the entry new normal
• Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle.2020 May 15, Amisha Padnani, “Is Marriage a Prize?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 May 2020. From the entry bs
• Not a church-load of people in their finery with all their expectations.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 338. From the entry church-load
• Horowitz’s Steve we see both bookish diffidence and broish expectations of how the world will treat him.2018 April 10, Alexis Soloski, “Review: In ‘Dutch Masters,’ Subway Seatmates, So Close and Yet So Far”, in The New York Times. From the entry broish
• He had almost hoped she would not live up to expectations.2016, Debby Holt, The Soulmate, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry trepidate
• This normative expectation is perhaps best captured in the popular colloquial phrase: “Pics or it didn't happen.”2016, Jan E. Stets, Richard T. Serpe, New Directions in Identity Theory and Research, page 147. From the entry pics or it didn't happen
• These counterdevelopments challenge earlier expectations about a linear progression of secularism and modernisation.2016, Peter Nynäs, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life. From the entry counterdevelopment
• This means that the prediction puts fewer constraints on our expectations.2015, Stuart Armstrong, Kaj Sotala, “How We’re Predicting AI – or Failing to”, in Jan Romportl, Eva Zakova, Jozef Kelemen, editors, Beyond…. From the entry caveat
• I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations.2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49. From the entry expect
• An Amazon princess and the most powerful warrior of her race, Wonder Woman ignored these expectations.2014, Tim Hanley, “Introduction”, in Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago…. From the entry Wonder Woman
• Butch up.” My feminist futch self finds journeying through these expectations unpleasant.2011, Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN, pages 240–241. From the entry futch
• In the case of the nocebo, it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.2009 April 25, Stuart Blackman, “Why health warnings can be bad”, in Financial Times. From the entry nocebo
• Notably, though, for all of the product’s pop-culture spongeworthiness, the new distributor has only modest sales expectations.2009 May 23, Natasha Singer, “Contraceptive Sponge Makes a Return to Pharmacy Shelves”, in New York Times. From the entry spongeworthiness
• There's an unspoken expectation that I'll live up to my father's example.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: SSV Normandy. From the entry ancestry
• It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why these checklists exist: expectations and uncertainty.2008, Christine Hassler, 20 Something Manifesto: Quarter-Lifers Speak Out about Who They Are, What They Want, and How to Get It, Novato…. From the entry checklister
• It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.2007, Ralph Yarrow, Franc Chamberlain, Sacred Theatre, page 114. From the entry unmean
• However, traditional formulations of unmet expectations implicitly treat only undermet expectations or unpleasant surprises.2006, Linda L Putnam, Kathleen J Krone, Organizational Communication. From the entry undermet

Meaning of expectation

1. noun The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
2. noun That which is expected or looked for.
3. noun An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view.

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Questions about expectation in a sentence

How do you use expectation in a sentence?

Expectation is used as a noun. For example: “He struggled with his parents' expectations.”

What is a short sentence with expectation?

“He struggled with his parents' expectations.”

What does expectation mean?

Expectation means the act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.