Sentence examples for defeating expectations from inspiring English sources

This year's canine corps is the crowd-pleasing act from It'ly, the Olate Family's Dogs, with a passel of energetic terriers and poodles that walk alone and in combinations on hindpaws and forepaws, scoot down slides, push scooters and vault over hurdles, although there is always one little clown bent on getting laughs by defeating expectations.

Obama begins his march by defeating expectations and pulling out a win.

Except.... "Except" is the word on which "Private Life" could be said to turn, unless it's the word "alas," that bitterly exhaled emotional response to reversals and defeated expectations.

The ambitious emo band Saves the Day recently switched directions: on "In Reverie" (DreamWorks) it defeats expectations by going soft; there's lots of oohing and ahhing, and even more falsetto.

The ambitious emo band Saves the Day has a new album, "In Reverie" (DreamWorks), in which the band defeats expectations by going soft: there's lots of oohing and ahhing, and even more falsetto.

So, if given a chance, might he surprise us all by doing a fantastic job as President, in the same way that Bloomberg defeated expectations?

In addition to using "but," children can also defeat expectations with an "even though" construction, as in "Even though the boy was tired, he kept looking for his frog".

That was what you had to love about New York: it always defeated your expectations.

The reader waits for a transformation, but here again, the book sets out to defeat our expectations.

Written for private aristocratic entertainment, the music darts, dives and parries, playing melodic and rhythmic tricks that continually defeat the expectations of its audience.

Bachmann said she has previously defeated low expectations, citing as examples her election to the House of Representatives and her victory in the Iowa straw poll earlier this year.