How to Use expectancy in a Sentence

expectancy

noun

• Life expectancy at birth is 85 years, the highest in the world.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
• The life-expectancy gap has closed, the air is cleaner, the buildings smarter.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Either man could have clicked a few times to see the Dodgers’ win expectancy.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Life expectancy was short for a fighting man at the time.
  — Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• Denver: Life expectancy in the state dropped for the second straight year in 2021.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• Life expectancy in those groups now stands at 65 years.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 2 Sep. 2022
• The Astros’ win expectancy, up 6-2 with six outs left, was at 97%.
  — James Yasko, Chron, 11 Oct. 2021
• Life expectancy in the U.S. has been increasing since the 1980s.
  — Charlene Wehring, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Life expectancy in Afghanistan today is a mere 48 years.
  — Abdulkader Sinno, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2021
• Here’s the good news: More black people are going to college, and black life expectancy is on the rise, the report points out.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• Life expectancy: The US trailed high-income countries for a decade.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
• 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
• Marginalize the starting pitcher, turn the firemen loose and watch the win expectancy rise.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• Life expectancy in Mozambique is only 55 years, compared to 79 years in the US.
  — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
• For the first time since the early 1990s, life-expectancy is actually dropping for many groups in the U.S.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2022
• Find your age in the table and the adjacent life-expectancy figure.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 5 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• From the archives: At 5 p.m. on a recent Thursday, an air of expectancy — or maybe nervousness — fills the kitchen.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2018
• The pandemic has wiped out the past 14 years of progress in narrowing the life-expectancy gap between Black and white people.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2020
• The ones that do adjust and can thrive have an ever-increasing lifetime expectancy in the NFL.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
• People born in zip codes mere miles from one another might have life-expectancy gaps of 10 or even 20 years.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 June 2020
• Also, the life expectancy of these trees subjected to wind, ice and snow loading is only eight to 10 years.
  — D.j. Scully, Cincinnati.com, 15 May 2017
• Life expectancy declined by 3.1 years for men but 2.3 years for women.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
• Depending on the condition in which they've been stored, VHS tapes only have a life expectancy of about 20-30 years.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 6 June 2017
• In ancient Greece and Rome, people fared little better as some estimates place the expectancy range between 20 and 35 years.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• Even in pastoral scenes like his study of two magnolia warblers, the little birds vibrate with expectancy, each obviously poised for flight.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024