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Example sentences for "least expected"

  • The hare starts from where it is least expected.

  • The hare starts from where she is least expected.

  • He attacked the enemy's right and left wings, and when heavily engaged with varying fortunes launched his decisive attack against the centre, where the difficulties of the ground caused it to be least expected.

  • The first thought and the last of the great general is to outwit his adversary and to strike where he is least expected.

  • It happened, however, that the money which Gray had laid out in making his house comfortable and neat was of the greatest advantage to him, and at a time and in a way which he least expected.

  • Heaven heard his prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices exclaiming, "Victory, victory!

  • He therefore advised him (and, as his godson so soon to be, he might even command him) never from that time forth to travel without money and the usual requirements, and he would find the advantage of them when he least expected it.

  • One day, when I least expected anything of the kind, he wrote to me in behalf of that woman, informing me that Grimm offered to maintain her, and to ask my permission to accept the offer.

  • One day, when I least expected it, I was sent for by the Count de la Roque.

  • When I least expected visitors I was unmercifully assailed by them, and I seldom made a plan for the agreeable employment of the day that was not counteracted by the arrival of some stranger.

  • He came and surprised me at Montmorency when I least expected him.

  • Thus we may review all the groups in the nation, but the most significant transformation of all is taking place within the business group,--where indeed it might be least expected.

  • Lightning often strikes where it is least expected," she replied archly.

  • A woman's tongue, like a firearm, is a dangerous weapon, and often strikes where it is least expected.

  • On the very day I arrived, when we least expected it, a platoon of gendarmes arrived and asked to search the house for hidden metals.

  • Suddenly, when we least expected it, there appeared before us a little, shriveled soldier who spoke German very badly and appeared to be a Slovene.

  • Suddenly, when we least expected it, we heard the noise of an aeroplane passing low over us.

  • Near him rode another singularly resembling him: this was Adrian Vardarelli; he saw another there he least expected to see--their friend the Count, of last evening!

  • When Mr. Lennox heard his native tongue spoken where he least expected it, and by one he least imagined to know it, a sudden feeling of joy thrilled through him.

  • I did not undeceive him, but I learned what I least expected, and that was the boy, your brother, had been picked up.

  • At length, one afternoon, when I least expected anything of the kind, I saw coming up to the house the Marechal de Luxembourg, followed by five or six persons.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    business hours; could scarcely; going everywhere; indirectly elected; least developed; least equal; least five; least half; least have; least not; least once; least one; least some; least thirty; least three; least twenty; least twice; long story; lying flat; material world; might call; pass through thy land; play ball; smaller quantity; three pairs; will easily