Sentence examples for expected something less from inspiring English sources

I had expected something less ample and nicely tended; Alvarez's memoir had prepared me for something pinched and melancholy.

If they surprise you with a very appealing offer, don't let on that you expected something less favorable.

Having said that, it was clear by then that the more you expected something the less likely you were to get it.

Young people expected something immediately.

"I always expected something much more advanced".

I had expected something.

I expected something very precise and very pedantic and also something very technical.

Two questions in the press conference convened for him to discuss tonight's visit to an equally uncreative Newcastle United were couched in terms that "the club" and "supporters" expect something different – a less personal kind of suggestion.

Often times, the idea of leaving room for error is associated with expecting something WORSE or LESS than what you wanted to happen... but what about the flip side of that coin?

Hawking said heaven's a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark, and that passes the muster of "Everything I've Been Told About Reality is Totally Wrong 101," but I expect something a little less glib from a mind like his.

I was expecting something far more tasteful, and far less eccentric and mysterious.