Examples of 'we expected' in a sentence

Meaning of "we expected"

This phrase indicates that there was an anticipation or belief regarding a future event or outcome. It implies that there was a certain level of anticipation or hope for a specific result

How to use "we expected" in a sentence

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we expected
We expected you back a week ago yesterday.
I do not know what we expected him to tell us.
We expected you to come in here with a plan.
The progress we expected has not been made.
We expected more keenness from the postmaster.
There is no way we expected this kind of hitting.
We expected you to leave the competition standing.
I do not know why we expected anything different.
We expected to find her body any day.
I do not think we expected what we just saw.
We expected a nurse on the dot of half past.
This is what we expected from day one.
We expected to see you earlier in our travels.
The truth is that we expected something else.
We expected a certain amount of resistance to the idea.

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We saw everything we expected to see and more.
We expected he would be too busy but he agreed.
We learned what we expected out of the marriage.
We expected you would greet us on our arrival.
My buck was not where we expected to find him.
I think we expected to get some modest response.
Cops got here earlier than we expected.
I think we expected to see you next week.
Obviously these are not the results we expected.
For years we expected for this moment.
You have done just what we expected of you.
Not what we expected to see after treatment.
She performs better than we expected her to.
Are we expected to just sit here and freeze.
Seems to be working out better than we expected.
We expected this might happen one day.
But the machine itself is just as we expected it to be.
We expected to find her among the victims.
The current situation is not what we expected.
We expected heavyweight champions to be these mythic people.
These advances came faster than we expected.
We expected their answers to be as straightforward as the questions.
So what if neither of us is going with the guy we expected.
We expected the church would help us out.
This woman is more stubborn than we expected.
We expected leaders to have all the answers.
You are not the landing party we expected.
We expected that socialism would come from.
We made you a deal to which we expected compliance.
Not what we expected after two hours.
We had to work a bit longer than we expected.
I think we expected to be a little bit better than we were.
At least not the way we expected them to.
We expected corp assignments the world over.
I am afraid he has more capabilities than we expected.

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