Sentence examples for not exactly expected from inspiring English sources

At publication parties, admirers told Mrs. Nabokov that they had not exactly expected the author to show up with his white-haired wife of thirty-three years.

"This was not exactly expected," says Lass-Hennemann.

In the passenger seat, I questioned my mental toughness, not exactly expecting a sympathetic ear.

"We were not exactly expecting to see them," said Friend, who with Nutman has been studying Greenland's rocks for more than 35 years.

The nonprofit claims that Christmas Seals was the country's first major direct mail campaign, but does not exactly expect kudos for that.

Yeah, I'm not exactly expecting such a model before the end of the decade.

Considering Palm's lag in getting free apps into their store (there are right around 80 right now), we're not exactly expecting an onslaught once they open up the doors to paid apps.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wasn't exactly expected to announce new hardware during his keynote at the NIPS conference.

I didn't exactly expect myself -- I guess I had high expectations for myself, but I didn't -- you know, I wasn't sure how everything was going to play out, especially with having to go to Q-school and play through the fall series.

"WELL, I didn't exactly expect them to clap," said Guillaume Soro, the 30-year-old political leader of the Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire, a rebel group.

This was our fifth year of coming up from Connecticut to vacation at the resort, and I didn't exactly expect Captain Curmudgeon to come flopping along like a golden retriever.