Synonyms for great expectations

Grammar : Noun

Définition of great expectations

As in positive thinking : noun positive attitude

Example sentences :

He is not a man of great rank, great promise, or great expectations.
Extract from : « Modern Women and What is Said of Them » by Anonymous

We take up the book with great expectations, and find it—trash.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 » by Various

I have just finished my book of "Great Expectations," and am the worse for wear.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

The first number of "Great Expectations" appeared on the 1st December.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

You cannot think how happy you make me by what you write of "Great Expectations."
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

This was likewise the case with an uncle, from whom I had great expectations.
Extract from : « The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I » by Tobias Smollett

The great expectations are not all on the younger side of fifty.
Extract from : « How it Feels to be Fifty » by Ellis Parker Butler

Once he had had great expectations, but alas!dad had just come a cropper.
Extract from : « Nothing But the Truth » by Frederic S. Isham

Great expectations were excited by it, but it soon sank into oblivion.
Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley

Great expectations were formed of him, and he fulfilled them all.
Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany » by Georg Brandes

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