How To Use lying in wait In A Sentence
- For any man to profess to be governed by the fixed principles of justice, of honor, of truth, or of generosity, is sufficient to stamp him a hypocrite and a designing knave, that is lying in wait under these characters for the happiness of others. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
- Thinking quickly, he flattened himself up against the wall next to the door, lying in wait.
- A man was ambushed and mugged by three men lying in wait as he walked home from a football match.
- These trading boats were three-masted, oceangoing junks, known as “big-eyed chickens” for their red sails and the huge pairs of eyes painted on their bows, put there by the sailors who believed that these magic oculi could spot pirates lying in wait up ahead. The Last Empress
- Lions, tigers and birds of prey were lying in wait. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
- Then we ran down the Illyrian coast and, with oars at full speed, sail bellying with a powerful southwester, rounded the Italian peninsula with a strong wind for Sicilia and the Tyrrhenian Sea, where we ran into a small flotilla of black-sailed ships expectantly lying in wait for us. The Skrayling Tree
- As his fame grows and his popularity spreads, there are many traps lying in wait for him.
- She was loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite at Superior, WI, on Nov.9, 1975 and left the port of Duluth-Superior, at the western end of Lake Superior shortly after 2: 00 p.m. in fair weather but with a foul forecast lying in wait.
- Now there were men lying in wait , abiding with her in the chamber.
- I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong, and she denounced me for a clumsy, stupid, labouring boy. Ten Boys from Dickens