Expect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to anticipate
• regard (something) as likely to happen
• regard (someone) as likely to do or be something
• believe that (someone or something) will arrive soon
• require (something) as rightfully due or appropriate in the circumstances
• require (someone) to fulfil an obligation
• used to indicate that one supposes something to be so but has no firm evidence
• regard as probable
• To wait for; to await.
• To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
• To wait; to stay.
• regard something as probable or likely
• consider obligatory; request and expect
• look forward to the probable occurrence of
• consider reasonable or due
• look forward to the birth of a child
• be pregnant with
NOUN:
• Expectation.

Words related to EXPECT

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Words that contain EXPECT

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How to use EXPECT in a sentence

• We cannot expect the fruits of the spirit if our goal is a material one.
• The English endeavored to employ this interval in making preparations against the return of the Danes, which they had reason soon to expect.
• Our fall, however, grievous as it was, was rendered more tolerable by the circumstance of having been prepared to expect it.
• Minturnians, I will hence, and you shall fly Occasions of those troubles you expect.
• Adelheid gave an involuntary shudder, her imagination having been prepared by rumor for even more than the truth would have given reason to expect, when the gate of St.
• You go after the men, and tell them I shall expect them to begin the first thing in the morning.
• It was such a slash as one might expect in a slaughtered ox.
• We shall expect to meet you at the Hotel Boswell in Pittsburg Saturday.
• I do not expect this business in which you are engaged to be quite couleur de rose.
• Besides, it is reasonable that those who have been at such pains to sympathise with artists should expect artists to think and feel as they do.
• It was evidently useless for me to attempt to speak, and experience informed me that I need not expect to hear a word fall from the lips of my companion.
• This boy with the trusting blue eyes would expect it of him.
• I expect the captain has called their attention to us.
• Their hope is the coming kingdom of heaven, in which it is not the law, but their Master from whom they expect salvation.
• So, too, he must know when to expect a throw if he himself be covering second.
• Rebner had led him to expect always the best among the Germans.
• I have been told that they are as bad in Greenland as here, and I expect they flourish at the North Pole itself.
• The judge did not speak, he did not know what to say just then, and Lucy did not seem to expect an answer.
• It has happened that I have been often recognised in my journey where I did not expect it.
• It may give you pain to tell you of it, yet if with the pain come triumphant memories and hopes, as I expect there will, you may choose the pain with them.
• He will explain to you the steps that I expect you to pursue.
• Such was the judgment of a Court which proved more merciful than she had perhaps a right to expect.
• I expect to hear from the Colonel as soon as he is got down, by a servant of his own.
• We do not expect that even the superior administration of our matchless monarch will suit the tastes and desires of weak-minded and superstitious men.
• We must expect also to find combinations of the same kind in the works of art.

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