expecting
Example Sentences
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"It's special for a lot of reasons," said Morikawa, who used his win to announce that he and his wife are expecting their first child.
From Barron's
The nerves are evident from spikes in the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, known as Wall Street’s fear gauge because it measures the price of options that investors tend to buy when expecting stock swings.
Ms Pelicot said she was surprised and felt "very honoured" when she received the note, "because although my words touched the whole world, I wasn't expecting a letter from the Court of England".
From BBC
"I was not expecting that. I felt like going into this competition I was so ready," the 21-year-old said.
From Barron's
Among the oil paintings, art deco ephemera and geological artifacts, I wasn’t expecting a preserved memorial from the days following the 2015 terrorist attacks, and it leveled me.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
