"expect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They praise none; and neither the public nor the author expects praise from them.
- He smiled thinly, as if expecting praise for his gesture of concern.
- If they have anything in common it is that very few of them expect praise, or even regard their acts as exceptional.
- I had expected praise of him, but this was a good deal more.
- "Sir, it was no great achievement," Lemmon protested, never having expected praise of this sort.
- "I didn't expect praise," Killashandra exclaimed, though that indeed was what she had expected.
- Remember, he's expecting praise from all his friends.
- He had actually expected praise for his action.
- But a poor man who marries a girl with tastes beyond his means is asking for trouble, and can't expect much praise from the world.
- He had not expected such praise from the man whom he himself worshiped.
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