How To Use Wait In A Sentence

  • Which of them will prefer football and which the ant nest, we'll have to wait and see.
  • We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited.
  • Maybe your parents are right about waiting a few more years until you decide.
  • Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready. 
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  • There are a couple of girls waiting for you.
  • During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
  • He began placing some of the medicines back into the first-aid kit ‘Wait here, I'll be back in a few sec.’
  • Nancy and Andy bring in Stevie for an emergency pediatrician visit on "Weeds" (Showtime at 10), only to turn on the television in the waiting room and learn that the feds are a little too close to catching their family. TV highlights: Monday, Oct.18, 2010
  • She's been a bit edgy lately, waiting for the exam results.
  • The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
  • Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision. THE BROKEN GOD
  •     Hesper, awaiting thee each sentinel holdeth alarum. Poems and Fragments
  • Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight. Michael O'Halloran
  • We are not going to talk about ifs and buts, like I say, just wait for the procedure to take its place and then at the end of that, if no one has made the decision for us, we'll have to make the decision.
  • Wait outside in case you can be useful.
  • Peter said, signaling to the waiter: "When I got that letter from Mrs. Dawson I felt sick, positively _sick_. Working Murder
  • On the seventh floor there is a big tea room where you can watch television and get a coffee while you wait for us to finish with Jason so you can give him a lift home.
  • After just the right wait, they arrived, each accompanied by a side dish of steamed vegetables.
  • The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed.
  • So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • We are going to wait until we have refurbished and repainted it before selling.
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • Eiki (aka the inheritor of Zhuge Liang's fan) hates waiting for her lovers to perform. Comments for Azure Flame
  • I don't see the point of waiting for her, she is probably not coming.
  • Thelma has several drug-related convictions and is awaiting trial on a charge of violent disorder.
  • He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
  • These companies will also sell you mason bee cocoons, if you don't want to wait for the neighborhood bees to stumble across your beehouse on their own. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • Better to wait until bubbles burst and manage the consequences, softening the economic blow by loosening monetary policy very quickly.
  • Yes | No | Report from TheEasternShore ... wrote 1 year 1 week ago no, just drag them into the middle if it is iced over then just wait until the pond unfreezes I have started a new pond. I have alot of old christmass trees.
  • he was waiting for them at the rendezvous
  • Are the forces of fallacy still out there, waiting to reassume their hold? Times, Sunday Times
  • If a bloke's a waiter, it ain't fair to bung him down as a ` waster ". STAGE FRIGHT
  • She pushed the button and waited in front of one of the shiny gold colored doors.
  • I waited at the top of East Street.
  • And then, in the pouring rain, a half-dozen supporters stood around waiting for the media to show up.
  • As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
  • Elena and Marina got to see the same sight when the waitress turned to serve Sean. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
  • Los Angeles is full of beautiful girls working as waitresses, hoping to be discovered by a movie agent.
  • Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press A displaced child, whose family fled from the Khyber tribal region due to military operations, held onto her mother while waiting to register at the Jalozai camp on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday. Asia in Pictures
  • Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
  • Lennox Lewis and the rest of boxing await the answer with not inconsiderable interest.
  • Alex leaned up against the locker near hers and waited patiently for her to stick her coat in the locker and get the padlock on and locked.
  • Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
  • As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Sole Music
  • He had to wait for the first-class passengers to deplane, of course, since even flag officers fly coach. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • Rogan Ward/Reuters A poll worker waited for voters to arrive at a Nkandla, South Africa, polling site Wednesday. Voters in South Africa Head to Polls
  • But the underlying cause of last week's yo-yo-ing on the markets was the long-awaited shake-out of the over-valued internet companies.
  • But equivocalness hangs in the air - we're waiting for it to tip over.
  • Which of course explains why Bush is afraid to drive by motorcade through Washington DC but does it in Bagdad … oh waitThink Progress » Rep. King: My Wife ‘Is At Far Greater Risk Being a Civilian In D.C. Than An Average Civilian In Iraq’
  • This worked fine on the old keypunches that punched each column as you typed it, but the newer keypunches waited until you finished the 80th column and then punched the entire card.
  • The 19-year-old from Withington is waiting to finish university before having a bust enhancement.
  • ‘I might be from Ayrshire, but I don't want to wait until I'm deid,’ she told O'Hagan.
  • Her great wings beat restlessly against her back as she waited for the others to join her.
  • I'm a pinheaded businessperson so I'm waiting for the PowerPoint slides.
  • Can't wait to see Ryan score the title clincher v Stoke in front of the Stretford End the week before he flies of to Madrid for the final. this is a big big game so I don't think he should start straight from injury, off the bench maybe .... you know give him a run out when we're 4-0 up: p Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
  • I'd have been content to wait out the weather in my tent, but Ron consulted his topo map and we headed off, marching along a streambed into foggy nothingness, south toward the foothills.
  • The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
  • And the images you conjure with "straddling glowing globes and caressing the giant W" makes us sound so freakin 'horny ... oh wait ... nevermind. Blogger Bender - Part II
  • But wait, that bugger is gone already, Too bad, so sad. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
  • This woman, dressed in a headscarf, long peasant dress and sweater, stands with her arms folded in front of her as if she is slightly cold or perhaps waiting for a tardy child.
  • On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
  • The Boston Globe, however, has a precis for those who can't wait.
  • While awaiting maintenance arrival, Airmen Green and Helton continued patrolling the area to verify that all aircraft were chocked.
  • By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
  • The biggest surprise still awaited us. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then it added, `Wait a mo ",' and disappeared back into its room. A DEATH IN TIME
  • High jinks and fast-moving action prove another winning combination for Bad Boy cops Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in this long-awaited sequel.
  • Sam flicked through a magazine while he waited.
  • When he got to the office he found a mountain of mail waiting for him.
  • The chatelaine waited patiently and loyally for him to return and take possession of her gift.
  • It was wonderful returning home that evening to find a packet of fruit pastilles waiting for me after I had eaten my dinner.
  • When you shut up your eyes , I like a duck in a thunderstorm . I can but stop and wait beside you whisht .
  • They are only preparing them for the preferential treatment awaiting them when they become hardened criminals in modern jails. The Sun
  • Consequently, she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job.
  • ‘You must be joking,’ I wanted to say, but choked on my words as I looked at the moving conveyer and spotted my long-awaited weather-beaten backpack.
  • It almost feels like we're a bunch of paupers waiting outside a rich man's house.
  • Cleopatra asks Charmian for mandragora to pass the time while she waits for Antony to come back.
  • In the conference hall where they waited was a table. Christianity Today
  • One day someone will walk into your life, then you realize love was always worth waiting for.
  • WAIT for six minutes before drinking. The Sun
  • Aspen groves dot the trail as you go, with larger stands waiting for you on the far side of the lake.
  • Wait for governments to take effective action on global warming and you could fry or drown first.
  • I have instructed a Building Surveyor to inspect the works and am awaiting his report.
  • He waits eagerly for people to recognise him in the street, and sometimes they do, and tell him off for being so horrid and mean. Times, Sunday Times
  • I replied that we daren't go until we saw a reasonable chance (if I knew anything, we'd wait a long time for one), and so we bandied it to and fro and got no forrarder, and finally went to bed, played out. The Sky Writer
  • He paused again, letting the name seep into the minds of those assembled and waiting for the general reaction. Doors Into Chaos
  • While it is true that the Hogwarts tales are supposed to appeal to young readers, personnel at bookstalls say that there is no dearth of adult readers who cannot wait to see what Rowling has in store in the new book.
  • However, there is no great bonanza of wealth awaiting Ireland in the Atlantic waters.
  • It was the first time even the back room was full, and though that may be what every owner wants, two waiters sleepwalked through our room with eyes wide shut, ignoring everyone to their left and right.
  • A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
  • They acted like some surreptitious athletics officials who could not wait to be the first to give the media a scoop and doubtless court future favour as a reward.
  • She had waited here in the orchard since dawn and she was prepared to go on waiting until moonset if necessary. The Night Of the Solstice
  • If those consumers think the drug industrial monopolists already charge too much for pills and panaceas, just wait until the privately patented and monopolized ‘stem cell cures’ hit the market…
  • Waiters say that they can always tell if a customer is going to be a good tipper or not.
  • She gives us a big hello and sends us to the back of the room to await our induction chat. Times, Sunday Times
  • You could wait until you've got only a thimbleful of gas in there, but why not fill up now and forget about it for the next 60,000 miles?
  • Dear ladies (and sirs), that last is reason alone to try to remember to WASH - not dryclean - your (washable) fabrics when you get them home, instead of waiting until just before you sew them to preshrink them. Resolved. - A Dress A Day
  • Then the journey continues on to a campsite where camels await you.
  • Muleteers provide aid stations stocked with Peruvian cheese sandwiches, coca tea, and other energy foods along every trail; camps await runners at the end of each day.
  • Waits have come down since claimants were told to present their case in person. The Sun
  • He displayed the agonizer between two fingers, and waited. Firestorm
  • Anything could be waiting for them in its white, drifty depths. May Bird, Warrior Princess
  • I anxiously await the appearance of the first Concord grapes from the farm nearby. Laura Silverman: Flight Of The Concords: Grape Sorbet
  • Police are currently awaiting a toxicology report. The Sun
  • What restaurants need are professional waiters.
  • A small fortune will await the man who can reach the upper deck.
  • She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
  • In public, they had to speak of suspects, of allegations and beliefs and evidence, then wait for juries and judges to validate their work. EVERY SECRET THING
  • He waited there while the cathedral began to reverberate with a lovely, godly music. THE BROKEN GOD
  • It's a latter-day screwball comedy waiting to happen. Times, Sunday Times
  • The students seemed to offer another option for an administration already grappling with sabo -- teurs in Iraq and suicide bombers in Israel: to sit back and wait for a second Iranian revolution. Firefight Over Iran
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  • They sat to one side, waiting and watching as other children took their turns.
  • Our first semester is winding down, and all the pcvs are eagerly awaiting IST (In Service Training) in Gansu province at the end of January to meet up again! Sichuan Province: Mianyang « Peace Corps: China
  • He redialed the number of the bodyguard and waited for him to pick up.
  • I then waited half an hour until the bracelet was adjusted to my size.
  • By the time you've waited, you can either buy the first edition for peanuts from the lemmings who have to have the new version Right Now This Minute, or you can buy the next edition with more features for a lower price. Save Money With No-Equipment Exercises | Lifehacker Australia
  • Approximately 88,000 people are on the national organ transplant waiting list, waiting for kidneys, livers, pancreases, intestines, hearts and lungs.
  • Wen son, you await here, I quest big ice-cubes apology" Yi snow more thinks more uneasy, directly rush out to inebriate fairy building.
  • The good news for hot hatch lovers is there is a smouldering two-litre twin turbo VXR waiting in the wings that hits showrooms in spring. The Sun
  • Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man. 
  • Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
  • I have been waiting for days, but my fingers don't stretch the right way, or I can't find the tab for the chord and when I do the notes have stopped ringing and it doesn't seem the same.
  • As they wait to land, they burn jet fuel, pollute the air and disturb the lives of people below. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hurry forward there, please—there are people waiting behind you.
  • There was nobody behind/on the counter when I went into the bank, and I had to wait to be served.
  • More critical are analogous words that have acquired easily mistakable senses, such as eventually/eventuellement (‘possibly’), actually/actuellement (‘currently’), or to attend/attendre (‘to wait’). French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News
  • It was unacceptable that anxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident and emergency departments.
  • The OED always gives the earliest known usage of the word and in this case it's, wait for it, Lord Lyttelton, 1760, Dialogues of the Dead. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Bights of buntline and other ropes were dangling from above, only waiting to be swung from. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
  • Wait, now- here is a curl which slipped out of place, as I tucked it carefully under your snood.
  • The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
  • Ford, Mazda and Changan have applied to Chinese regulators to split their three-way tie into two 50-50 ventures and are awaiting approval, Periam said. Ford aims for more vehicle market segments in China
  • He saw privates, corporals, sergeants, and all the other ranks waiting for treatment from anything such as a broken limb, to a gunshot wound to a vital area of the body.
  • The breakout brings to 15 the number of awaiting-trial prisoners who have escaped from police holding cells in the Transkei since the weekend.
  • He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.
  • But wait, above the old medicine cabinet from the house next door that we bought and demolished to build our garage, more mossiness has appeared. Returns « Fairegarden
  • She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray.
  • If I were to wait until some kind of separate road system for cycles is introduced, a dicky heart would have taken me to my grave before I managed to get on my bike.
  • I had the parcel on the ground, and waited for ages, edging gradually into position, when it arrived.
  • There aren't many films that metaphorically made ... jdogzz: love the first three cant wait till the forth one comes out my e-mail is: [email protected] alew: It ` s not ryan gosling in the last photo - it ` s the the director of the film Film Junk
  • (I can't wait to see the profusion of bittorent trackers, new "copyfight" / Free culture efforts, and newer, better p2p technologies that would result from that. P2pnet news
  • Summon one of the swiftest of the coria and have it wait in readiness," he added, as though by afterthought. The Moon Pool
  • Stuart Braithwaite mumbled into the mike for another newie, Secret Pint.
  • Wait a minute! I'm beginning to catch on.
  • Some waited 10 and 12 hours for a morsel of meat. Times, Sunday Times
  • That will have to wait until March 10 when they play host to the Las Vegas Outlaws.
  • The long-awaited opening will mark the triumphant end of a battle stretching back up to four years.
  • While all wait for the auspicious moment to tie the knot, these bureaus are always on the move.
  • And wait till you see those moody sunsets. Times, Sunday Times
  • The numbers of those on the waiting lists for housing has grown rapidly, as have the numbers of homeless in Britain.
  • She waited for him to invite her to dance, not wishing to seem bold.
  • We didn't have to wait too long before we got in and I must say that Santa was very good.
  • Mostly it was full of anorexic patients, but once in a while I would see this one obese lady in the waiting room. Times, Sunday Times
  • Employees will work to prequalify iPhone customers while they wait in line; those buyers will receive a claim ticket for the phone, which Apple says can be redeemed on the spot or later the same day by 6PM (or 4PM on Sundays). Apple stores opening early for iPhone customers
  • When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
  • Through the lane down which the Dweller had passed we went as quickly as we could, coming at last to the space where the coria waited. The Moon Pool
  • ‘You look spiffy tonight, Matt,’ I teased him as he ignored Madison's request to wait and joined us in the bathroom.
  • At night, they advised us to put on our under-bungalow lights and wait for the floorshow of ravenous and strange-looking fish gobbling up plankton just beneath us.
  • While she waited on the step May thought about Maurice's mother looking at Southport's slug-like sea with mean, jaundiced eyes. PROSPECT HILL
  • Waitrose, for example, has made a real and commendable effort to source sustainable fish and shellfish across the board. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although he had no actual plans, he knew that his road would be made dear and so he waited, getting by on talent and saving his genius for when his name would be called.
  • DELHI: India's Reliance Industries Ltd has awarded its term tender to sell diesel to traders Trafigura, Kuwait's IP. and Africa-focused Galana as it prepares for a surge in supply later this Oil company Reliance Industries is planning to export low sulphur diesel to refinery at Jamnagar comes on stream later this year, P. Raghavendran, the company's refining China will cut diesel exports in May by 40 percent versus April volumes to a four-month low of WN.com - Business News
  • Friday nights were the best weeknights for tips, both waitresses knew.
  • To play you will need to buy a token from one of the wait staff in the casino.
  • Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
  • The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
  • It's all well and good for some to say that it's wrong for children to be advised to hit back, but I'm afraid I'd rather my son or daughter protected themselves against a pasting from a bully rather than wait for a teacher to come to their aid. Crib sheet 19.10.10
  • A preliminary glossary of Inuktitut words relating to bowheads, whaling, and related topics has been prepared, but it is not included in the book, as it awaits verification by Inuit elders.
  • I am aweary of awaiting thine arrival; for indeed long hath been thine absence from the lover which longeth for thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He paused at the intersection, fearful that a hard leather boot was waiting for him no matter which way he ran.
  • Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies.
  • I can't wait to get cracking on next year 's crop and see what that might bring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Certainly the idea is not that all accused should be homeless and jobless while awaiting trial isit? The Volokh Conspiracy » What Should Landlords Do If a Tenant Is Accused of a Violent Crime?
  • The President told waiting reporters there had been a constructive dialogue.
  • The most baroque of these is a slippery square of cod, baked in a dome of salt and egg whites, which the waiters tap open at the table with a spoon.
  • I was at the end of fixed ropes and did not wait for Ara to belay me who was still jumaring at the base of the wall.
  • Only people who can trace their family history in Kuwait back before 1920 are entitled to citizenship.
  • They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation. Walden
  • Although he apparently waited for confirmation from his bank that the cheque had cleared before making the payments, he was subsequently advised that the cheque was fraudulent and had been dishonoured.
  • As the waiting time for getting a legally induced abortion is short, we believe that the number of spontaneous miscarriages while waiting for an abortion is low.
  • We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves. Andthen begin to love. Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how to loveor how long it will be. Just wait for one love. Maybe no one will comeout, but this kind of waiting is the love itself.
  • The sound of a car stopping outside the hotel drew me to the window as the waitress left me, and I was in time to see an old gentleman with a long white beard step from the interior of a Daimler landaulette, the door of which was held open by a dignified chauffeur, whose attire seemed to consist mainly of brass buttons. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
  • The only magazine in the waiting room was a scientific journal full of technical jargon above my head.
  • He says intending buyers will be aware that more blocks will be opened up in the area, and may judge that it will be in their interest to wait.
  • Suggestion: write it down next time and do a run through while waiting “backstage.” — airish I Do Solemnly Swear…(Line, Please?) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. Denis Waitley 
  • Life is not waiting for the storm in the past, but learning to dance.
  • While waiting for the wrecked car to emerge from parc ferm at 08.30 on race morning, the team removed the engine from the spare chassis in readiness to receive the Mercedes V8 and transmission from the crashed car. Chequered Conflict
  • These ruminations are chased from my mind like dustballs when the band takes the stage to the deafening approval of their awaiting minions.
  • Tuxedo-clad waiters brought champagne and frou-frou hors d' oeuvres to the thousand guests sprawled throughout the grounds.
  • The next line presents five options: Requests Awaiting Checkout, Your Checked out requests, Requests you've completed, Requests you marked not completable, and Requests you flagged for administrative attention. Gutenberg - Recent changes [en]
  • After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress. Jerry
  • It seems this gentleman was waiting for the doctor.
  • If you 'fail or bail' you're out of the game and if you inform the authorities, a grislier fate awaits. Times, Sunday Times
  • After lowering the bait, feel the sinker tap bottom, quickly reel in a few turns to take the rig clear of the snaggy rock bottom and wait for the fish to find the bait.
  • The boys went off to play catch with a football as we set up lunch and then waited for the fireworks to arrive.
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
  • For some time I sat upon a bench, what she called a craft table, and waited with other scraps of this and that. Where is Love?

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