Sentence Examples

1. Legrand had been awaiting us in eager expectation.
2. The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation.
3. For as many strange people I had encountered on our adventure, I thought I had seen all manner of oddity there was to see, yet this newcomer broke that expectation once again.
4. The very pleasure sought and the expectation of its fulfilment rendering vulnerable all those who participate.
5. Without assistance, we could expect to do little for the security of the ship, and our exertions were at first paralyzed by the momentary expectation of going down.
6. I dug eagerly, and now and then caught myself actually looking, with something that very much resembled expectation, for the fancied treasure, the vision of which had demented my unfortunate companion.
7. There was no expectation in the touch, just affection freely given.
8. At length, while, stupefied and terror-stricken, I stood in expectation of I knew not what hideous destruction, the car vibrated with excessive violence, and a gigantic and flaming mass of some material which I could not distinguish, came with a voice of a thousand thunders, roaring and booming by the balloon.
9. I hope that I am right in this supposition for upon it I build my expectation of reading the entire riddle.
10. This approach, however, was still impetuous in the extreme and it soon became alarmingly certain that, although I had probably not been deceived in the expectation of an atmosphere dense in proportion to the mass of the satellite, still I had been wrong in supposing this density, even at the surface, at all adequate to the support of the great weight contained in the car of my balloon.