expecting

Example Sentences

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“It’s sort of like outsourcing your workout to someone else and expecting to get stronger. Muscles — physical and cognitive — just don’t work like that.”

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Hughie and Annie are expecting a daughter named Robin, for example — a reveal that left Quaid in tears.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The delivery driver raised suspicions about this - expecting a woman, and the person who sold Purwadi the satay says the food was in different packaging by the time it was delivered to Aminah.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Analysts polled by The Wall Street Journal were expecting an April deficit of $56.1 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Although she was expecting a third child in September, she would never eat her morning allotment of bread but passed it through the fence to him.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom