"Rodney felt that my reading love stories gave me unrealistic expectations of our relationship."

"That may give young viewers inappropriate expectations for how they should behave."

The teachers, in turn, gave students higher expectations, and confidence that they could reach them.

"The worst thing we could do is to give everybody expectations we couldn't meet," he said.

He sounded so happy, and that gave me happy expectations.

I wasn't about to exaggerate and give them false expectations.

These programs gave workers new expectations for their employers.

The meat the night before had given it false expectations.

We give women false expectations and we make them feel worse about themselves.

Roles give us mutual expectations of what is either correct or good behavior.