Expecting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPECTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
NOUN:
• the act of expecting
ADJECTIVE:
• in a state of expectation
• pregnant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to anticipate

Words related to EXPECTING

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Words that contain EXPECTING

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How to use EXPECTING in a sentence

• You must bear in mind that I was expecting you, and that there are not so many young aristocrats of your age wandering about along the coast.
• He had lain in this way, he told me, for four nights, expecting that each would be the last.
• Every body gave them up for lost, expecting that Caesar would wreak terrible vengeance upon them.
• WHAT THE SLAVES EXPECTED The slaves were not expecting much but they were expecting more than they got.
• I have been writing this in my shawl and bonnet, expecting every instant to hear the bell toll for church, and now it is time to go.
• We got here about ten on Wednesday evening, expecting to find the house dark and forlorn, but Mrs.
• Months slowly dragged by, and yet the expecting girl received no word from home.
• Nevertheless, he watched him closely, expecting any instant to be ordered away for the Ordeal.
• I wondered if to-day was so much better than yesterday as conditions would warrant us in expecting.
• At night the men waited their orders, expecting to be sent after their Captain in one of the boats.
• The militia were ordered to rendezvous at Hillsborough, expecting they would thence be ordered by you into service.
• He stood motionless, expecting every breath to feel a point plunging into his flesh.
• Round each of these there is always a crowd of men and women, apparently expecting the enemy to assault them every moment.
• They were gone all day, having struck the creek some ten or twelve miles west of the cattle, expecting to fish down it and overtake the herds during the evening.
• He waited, almost as if expecting some answering voice, as distinct and tangible as his own.
• After having secured the deer, I hastened in the direction from whence it had come, expecting that every moment would solve the mystery.
• Being bidden by him to divide the wine equally they drew their swords and cut the wine skin in two, apparently expecting each to get a half with the wine in it.
• In consequence, English Christians do not know that they are unjust and utterly unreasonable, in expecting thoughtful men to abide by the creed of their ancestors.
• We now have peace, though I fear it will be of short duration, and I am expecting Castleman early this season.
• That was when, like Aunt Barbara, they were expecting her back, or rather expecting constantly to hear from her through Aunt Barbara.
• Boyer, expecting Heaven knows what, rose with celerity.
• Twiggs, the wife of the commanding officer, who since the past spring had been the only white lady at Fort Winnebago, was now expecting a companion and friend.
• The audience all arose in excitement, expecting to see him torn to pieces, and crying out for him to escape.
• Never expecting to find perfection in men, and not looking for divine attributes in created beings, in my commerce with my contemporaries I have found much human virtue.
• She was one being one expecting to be continuing to be resting, having come to be one who can be continuing to be telling what she is remembering she is telling.
• She hurried, fully expecting that Jack had gone down early to the meeting place and was waiting for her there.
• He found himself watching for Balfour, and expecting to meet him at every corner.

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