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How to use the word expecting in a Sentence? Page #4

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The big win is this shift in the focus from 2050 to 2030. I think that's an important big win, it sends it off to a better start than we had been expecting. The political agreement achieved at the G20 will create political impetus as leaders meet to start the COP.

Tom Burke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I wasn't expecting that tonight, my goal was to just play a good shutdown game, and I think I did a pretty good job of that.

Dysin Mayo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They mean a lot to him. Unfortunately, they're consistently disappointing, which I understand, i mean, any parent is both in love with their child, but there's also expecting sometimes too much of them. You know, we're all guilty of that. We can put terrible pressure on our children in order to validate themselves, you know ?

Jeremy Strong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Any time you have a plane that doesn't make a landing on a runway like it should, we're always expecting the worst but hoping for the best, and today we absolutely, positively got the best outcome we can hope for on this.

Tim Gibson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everybody is expecting big gatherings and bigger birds.

Chris DuBois

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m excited to see him play, i know he’s got the ability to do a lot of things. But it’s going to be the first time out there for the whole game. I’m just pumped to see him play, but I don’t go into it expecting anything. You try to prepare a guy as good as you can from our standpoint. I know he’s done his part in preparing. Then when Sunday comes, that’s usually the spot where you get to have fun and just cut it loose and you live with the results.

Kyle Shanahan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most of us in the public health community are expecting that The FDA vaccine advisers'll see approvals of vaccines for this younger age groups sometime in early November.

Megan Ranney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t know what they were expecting.

Michael Imperioli

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even us, we weren’t expecting that reaction from her.

Rose Alvarado

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Yeah, I thought it'd be a quick no. Which was exactly what I thought it would be. But you hear enough stuff and I think everyone knew what was going on at that time that it didn't seem like it was worth the call, but I know how we would've felt if it was going to happen and we didn't call. So, you call, you get a quick answer, which was what you're expecting, and then you move on.

Kyle Shanahan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I certainly wasn’t expecting to bump into Tom Cruise during my hike.

Andras Katica

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The data came a little earlier than some were expecting, and depending on how long The FDA takes to review the application, whether it's a four-week review or a six-week review, you could have a vaccine available to children as early as probably by the end of October, perhaps The FDA slips a little bit into November.

Scott Gottlieb

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When (the stocks) ran up, I think it was expecting a booster shot to be given to everyone, now I think it’s maybe a little less certain that that extra demand is going to be there.

Jeff Jonas

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I wasn't expecting to find them. I was studying this assemblage initially to look at the animal bones to reconstruct the human diet.

Emily Yuko Hallett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My office is right next to the World Trade Center, it’s like — oh! I wasn’t expecting that.

Jackie Hobbs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s like — oh! I wasn’t expecting that.

Thomas Hobbs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was expecting everyone to be a little sluggish. We expended a lot of energy that last series, just mentally, being locked in every single pitch, from the get-go they were locked in and making (Kyle) Freeland work.

Kevin Gausman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have multiple issues with edible oil supplies worldwide, palm oil in Malaysia, canola in Canada and La Nina curbing soybean output in South America, we are expecting lower oil content in Canada’s canola crop due to the drought.

Dorab Mistry

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We are expecting lower oil content in Canada’s canola crop due to the drought.

Dorab Mistry

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

My husband opened the door, and I just asked him, ‘Are they dressed – fully dressed?’ He told me yes, i was still expecting them to say your son is back in the states or is coming, but they told me, ‘Sorry for your loss.’.

Coral Briseño

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I feel like the homers were a little bit ambushed, i need to make better pitches when they’re expecting the fastball.

Shohei Ohtani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Navigating money conversations with your significant other may be awkward, even when you're not expecting a baby, a good financial coach or planner can be helpful to ease the tension if every money conversation ends with an argument.

Deborah Meyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The situation is fluid, but we are expecting them to be back, that is the hope.

Howard Shen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In this case, [ the projection for next year is ] possibly worse because, year by year, if the trend so far is that the climate is increasing, the risk will continue to grow. So, if anything, we're expecting a higher chance of this happening next year than this year. But it's basically a one-over-400 chance every single year.

Van Aalst

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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