expecting

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• Insanity, after all, is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, right?

• It seems that Mr. H. is expecting not only me, he's expecting Thom Mount, the head of production at the studio.

• He tended to shield himself from disappointment by expecting the worst—of people and of his country.

• I normally ignore blocked numbers, but was expecting a number of calls that day so I excused myself and answered anyway.

• “If you are expecting any serious answers to this question, you are probably going to be disappointed,” he said.

• I was four hours under these circumstances, expecting, and indeed wishing, every moment to be my last.

• I was expecting this suggestion to be carried out; but they did nothing of the kind.

• The gentleman pauses and smiles with his head inclined, evidently expecting to be addressed in French.

• The company, expecting a scene, rose en masse to their feet, while those in the inner room crowded to the front.

• There was no sign of the red roadster behind them, but, for all that, they were expecting trouble on account of the smoke-signals.