Examples of 'they expected' in a sentence

Meaning of "they expected"

They expected: Indicates that a particular outcome or behavior was anticipated or foreseen by someone

How to use "they expected" in a sentence

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they expected
They expected me to work hard and do well.
I do not think they expected us to arrive so early.
They expected adults to take remedial action.
People saw what they expected to see.
They expected more resistance over there.
I do not think they expected such a crowd.
They expected something exceptional to come out of it.
They failed because they expected to fail.
Perhaps they expected to receive a large dowry.
I was the last person they expected to see.
They expected he would be eaten by the rat.
I do not think they expected to be the government.
They expected to find evidence of combined ancestry.
Ask them what they expected to happen.
They expected us to buy into their fight.

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They died exactly how they expected to.
Maybe they expected less from life.
I tried to go a little further than they expected.
I knew that they expected a lot out of me.
Things did not turn out as they expected.
They expected me to crash the wedding or something.
I do not even know what they expected me to do.
They expected you here a little sooner.
Seems a little bigger than they expected.
And they expected us to fall in line as well.
Japan was oftenly not what they expected it to be.
They expected you three days ago.
They even told us what they expected.
And they expected him that night.
I would give them all they expected.
Naturally they expected me to become a great star.
Just not exactly what they expected.
They expected the world to envy them.
One might wonder what they expected.
They expected to hear that we lived in poverty.
Govt got more than they expected.
They expected the community to feed them.
He was decidedly unlike how they expected him to be.
They expected to be dealt with in a very barbarous.
It stood out from what they expected.
They expected to enter with no blood shed.
And least of all they expected giant butterflies.
They expected the government to intervene to eradicate it.
You did what they expected you to do.
They expected the project would pass.
By human standards they expected nothing but death.
They expected an outcome and they were rewarded.
Not the one they expected.
They expected the kingdom to appear at once.
Mary phoned me they expected you.

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