diff --git a/packages/expect/src/index.ts b/packages/expect/src/index.ts
index 74a7c6f841c1..6f514edf2d20 100644
--- a/packages/expect/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/expect/src/index.ts
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ import {
   setState,
 } from './jestMatchersObject';
 import matchers from './matchers';
+import {
+  printReceivedStringContainExpectedResult,
+  printReceivedStringContainExpectedSubstring,
+} from './print';
 import spyMatchers from './spyMatchers';
 import toThrowMatchers, {
   createMatcher as createThrowMatcher,
@@ -358,6 +362,11 @@ expect.extend = (matchers: MatchersObject): void =>
   setMatchers(matchers, false, expect);
 expect.matchers = matchers;
 
+expect.print = {
+  printReceivedStringContainExpectedResult,
+  printReceivedStringContainExpectedSubstring,
+};
+
 expect.anything = anything;
 expect.any = any;
 
diff --git a/packages/expect/src/types.ts b/packages/expect/src/types.ts
index e0113ef67d5e..9e920e745d4a 100644
--- a/packages/expect/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/expect/src/types.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ export type Expect = {
   [id: string]: AsymmetricMatcher;
   not: {[id: string]: AsymmetricMatcher};
   matchers: MatchersObject;
+  print: {
+    printReceivedStringContainExpectedResult(
+      received: string,
+      result: RegExpExecArray | null,
+    ): string;
+    printReceivedStringContainExpectedSubstring(
+      received: string,
+      start: number,
+      length: number,
+    ): string;
+  };
 };
 
 interface Constructable {