How to Use expectancy in a Sentence

expectancy

noun

• Just look at this win expectancy chart.
  — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
• Either man could have clicked a few times to see the Dodgers’ win expectancy.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Life expectancy at birth is 85 years, the highest in the world.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• The life-expectancy gap has closed, the air is cleaner, the buildings smarter.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
• Clearly, things such as a good life expectancy, social support and trust are good for us.
  — Sam Wren-Lewis, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
• But here, the expectancy interest of the artists could take some unusual forms.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 19 June 2019
• Marginalize the starting pitcher, turn the firemen loose and watch the win expectancy rise.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• Find your age in the table and the adjacent life-expectancy figure.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 5 May 2017
• The Astros’ win expectancy, up 6-2 with six outs left, was at 97%.
  — James Yasko, Chron, 11 Oct. 2021
• Michigan ranks 30th out of the 50 states for life expectancy, a new analysis shows.
  — Annalise Frank, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
• The teams of Alaskan huskies soon settle into a steady trot and surge forward with expectancy into the primeval wilderness ahead.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Feb. 2020
• The sellers are at purchase on average 78 years old with a life expectancy of 12 years.
  — Jonas Cho Walsgard, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
• Such grateful expectancy is the fruit of understanding that the source of all unchanging good is God.
  — Camille Carandang, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2025
• There was a mood of expectancy mingled with apprehension, and a sense of the audience holding its collective breath.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
• In fact, there’s research to suggest that expectancy violations are even more crucial in female friendships.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• The researchers used a waitlist rather than an active control group, so results could partly reflect expectancy or placebo effects.
  — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
• Have no expectations, but rather abundant expectancy.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
• Jan Oblak is one name that has been linked with United for the last few years already in the expectancy that De Gea will one day move on.
  — SI.com, 10 June 2019
• Just a funny feeling — nervousness, expectancy, and wondering what was going to happen next.
  — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
• On the website, officials gave a blanket four hour wait expectancy, and said passengers should plan accordingly.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
• Shifts in win expectancy by count, rather than in OPS, are what’s actually meaningful.
  — Tim Britton, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• Life expectancy in Mozambique is only 55 years, compared to 79 years in the US.
  — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
• Staff would be instructed not to answer direct questions about their own use during dosing and outcome visits, where expectancy effects matter most.
  — Ian Reardon, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
• Columbia also scored high in the health category, with women in the city enjoying the 10th-best life expectancy at birth.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
• But in a clinical trial, that experience can be a liability as outcomes can be sensitive to expectancy bias.
  — Ian Reardon, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
• Research on expectancy violations shows that relationships suffer most not when expectations are unmet, but when they’re unspoken.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Such is the expectancy around Arsenal now, a 1-0 loss to a bewitching free kick, the kind of sudden inspiration that decides a close and claustrophobic game, hit the team hard.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
• Someone genetically predetermined to live 80 years could reach 85 with healthy habits, while unhealthy lifestyle choices can shorten that expectancy to 75.
  — Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026