How To Use Waiting In A Sentence

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
There are a couple of girls waiting for you.
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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.
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
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 was waiting for them at the rendezvous
Are the forces of fallacy still out there, waiting to reassume their hold? Times, Sunday Times
And then, in the pouring rain, a half-dozen supporters stood around waiting for the media to show up.
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
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
But equivocalness hangs in the air - we're waiting for it to tip over.
The 19-year-old from Withington is waiting to finish university before having a bust enhancement.
I'm a pinheaded businessperson so I'm waiting for the PowerPoint slides.
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.
While awaiting maintenance arrival, Airmen Green and Helton continued patrolling the area to verify that all aircraft were chocked.
When he got to the office he found a mountain of mail waiting for him.
It was wonderful returning home that evening to find a packet of fruit pastilles waiting for me after I had eaten my dinner.
They are only preparing them for the preferential treatment awaiting them when they become hardened criminals in modern jails. The Sun
It almost feels like we're a bunch of paupers waiting outside a rich man's house.
One day someone will walk into your life, then you realize love was always worth waiting for.
Aspen groves dot the trail as you go, with larger stands waiting for you on the far side of the lake.
I have instructed a Building Surveyor to inspect the works and am awaiting his report.
He paused again, letting the name seep into the minds of those assembled and waiting for the general reaction. Doors Into Chaos
However, there is no great bonanza of wealth awaiting Ireland in the Atlantic waters.
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
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
Anything could be waiting for them in its white, drifty depths. May Bird, Warrior Princess
Police are currently awaiting a toxicology report. The Sun
It's a latter-day screwball comedy waiting to happen. Times, Sunday Times
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
Approximately 88,000 people are on the national organ transplant waiting list, waiting for kidneys, livers, pancreases, intestines, hearts and lungs.
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
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.
Hurry forward there, please—there are people waiting behind you.
Bights of buntline and other ropes were dangling from above, only waiting to be swung from. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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.
The numbers of those on the waiting lists for housing has grown rapidly, as have the numbers of homeless in Britain.
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
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
Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
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.
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.
They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation. Walden
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 only magazine in the waiting room was a scientific journal full of technical jargon above my head.
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
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.
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]
It seems this gentleman was waiting for the doctor.
The nurse who had just walked in to access the equipment room adjacent to the waiting room sensed the tension.
They were still waiting over an hour later as the police went about using their metal barricades and polite but authoritative commands to disperse the area.
There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. Toba Beta
Wenger, however, prefers to invest in promise rather than experience, and at this juncture the consequence of a persistent collective callowness is that while his club may have a waiting list of 40,000 for their season tickets, the empty seats in the middle and upper tiers last night spoke of the dissatisfaction of those among their supporters who do not subscribe to the doctrine of keeping the faith through thick and thin. Arsenal fizzle out after early promise – just like last season | Richard Williams
By toadying to the royal family of Crim Tartary, she was lady-in-waiting to the young Princess Angelica.
Although the price of the home doesn't reflect a fixer-upper, the original listing also says it is "waiting to be polished. Clarence J. Smale Los Feliz Home: Original Hollywood Glamour
If you're really lucky a Central Line train will already be standing there waiting with its doors gaping open.
It is not just the animals that are quivering in the waiting room - the owners are quaking at the thought of facing the vet's bill!
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship which was then riding at anchor and waiting for its cargo.
Ambulances have been queuing up at the Emergency Department, waiting up to 90 minutes before they can get their patients from a trolley to a bed.
Graham pulls out his petrol mower, and, no more than thirty minutes later, the job is done and there are two sacks of mowings waiting to go to the recycling centre.
There were no technicians with the latest equipment waiting to help him decipher the coughs, bellyaches, chest pains, dizzy spells and fevers that ailed his patients.
There should be a proper waiting room, with chairs, magazines to read and cloakroom facilities easily accessible.
The other has led a child-free life based in the back of the wardrobe, waiting on the substitute's bench in case of death, dissolution or disappearance of the main player.
Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
Cage was on edge when waiting for her exam results.
Yanub: ha, yes, I love the ‘gendering’ of illness or rather I hate it – it has accounted for too many deaths of male breast cancer patients and in a documentary, the transman is dying of ovarian cancer because….no one will allow a man in the office, they would literally rather die that allow a man to sit in the waiting room with other people with ovarian cancer. Cat 'Aww!', woman as construct, crossdressing and Intersex/DSD issues
He was at Shannon Airport waiting to fly to Dublin for a squad session when he was paged.
Dentex and rainbow-colored wrasse snuffle the white sand below, stirring up a meal, while tiger-striped gobies lay among the rocks, waiting to snap the smaller fish up in turn. The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos
All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
Without waiting for a reply, Mr. McGuffey dropped back into his department and Captain Scraggs, his soul filled with rage and dire forebodings, repaired to the galley, and "candled" four dozen eggs. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
Frida walks in from the waiting room, the swinging gate whapping against the wall with her determined stride. Healer
I was waiting at the luggage carousel and suddenly, beside me, was this six foot blonde Laplander. AN OLDER WOMAN
You must resign yourselves to waiting a bit longer.
There's a whole world out there, waiting for you to explore, and the possibilities are almost limitless.
And so, in chatting and thinking and waiting for the engineer, Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans walked about beneath the forest of screws, whose gyratory movement gave their arms the appearance of semi-diaphanous disks. Robur the Conqueror
By now, his wife would have given up waiting and served the cold beetroot soup with sour cream and chives.
The bill is still awaiting royal assent. Times, Sunday Times
Then, while sitting in a chair in the lobby, drinking an electrolyte beverage while waiting for Donna to join me after her own health regime, I realized that I felt wonderful -- "attuned" might be the more precise word. Archive 2008-07-27
The creeps are more likely to hang around waiting for unsuspecting victims in touristy zones like the Zona Rosa, so beware. Mexico City: Biggest city guide for the savvy traveler
After each titration step, samples were allowed to equilibrate for at least 6 min (longer waiting times did not furnish deviating results).
When the travel company went bankrupt, many holidaymakers were left high and dry abroad or waiting at the airport.
Much better than packing the midfield and waiting for the inevitable defeat. Times, Sunday Times
The detective watched him closely , waiting for a reply.
Juliet enters her bed chamber impatiently waiting to hear news.
Macha is 145 pounds of phlegmatic composure, a St. Bernard who can't help but look dignified and profound, even when she is waiting for a treat.
Everyone's just kind of bunkered down waiting for sunlight to appear. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
Enemy snipers were just waiting to aim at the glow of a cigarette end. Times, Sunday Times
This historic watermill is currently awaiting restoration.
Obama was hawkish about Afghanistan during the campaign, despite well-aired fears that Afghanistan is a quagmire-in-waiting. War: Politics and Power
A Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain.
Then I go to the scanner, I'm waiting for it to chirp, "Welcome to Wal-Mart!" but it sits silently (much more fashiony to be silent, non?) and I scan my code and then it shoots out a receipt that flies to the floor and I have to scurry around on the floor to find it. Cator Sparks: Bibhu Mohapatra Spring 2011 (PHOTOS, POLL)
The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing non-urgent but easy procedures first is life threatening and wrong.
Meantime, the build-up to D-Day went on, and the strain of waiting began to tell.
Subsequently, Liu Kui-54-type pistol carrying, Zhou carrying fruit knife to pre-selected sites waiting for.
After waiting for twenty minutes, the plane finally taxied and took off.
During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia.
Officers are awaiting further toxicology reports. The Sun
If you had a car and it made a terrible rattle you'd have it checked out immediately instead of waiting to for it to go kaput, the same principle applies to marriage.
All those so-called hipsters fervently awaiting Wes Anderson's follow-up to The Life Aquatic don't need to obsessively check IMDb; starting next week, they just have to turn on the TV. Bottle Racket
Mind goes, and forgetting stays. Waiting for next samsara. I will bury hope!
He is on death row awaiting execution for a non-political murder.
I even longed for the real Australian rubbish in other families' yards, like the stack of 'dead marines' waiting for the bottle-oh on the back porch.
Everyone is scared, waiting fearfully for the next attack.
September 13th, 2009 at 5: 05 am computerist: This irrelevance blows UCD through the roof simply from the fact that these organisms are each carriers of prescribed "blueprint" information slowly but surely waiting for their next "release" state. Behe, Common Descent, & UD
While waiting for help to arrive, the crew haggled with missionary priests for wine, rice and yams, and struggled to keep curious natives off the pontoons used for water landings.
Book 4, Treason's Shore, which wraps up the series just came out in HC so I'm waiting for the library to get their hands on it first. Friday Book Club
He expressed the concern that if redundancy money were simply spent on necessities, there would be a social explosion waiting to happen when that money ran out.
Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
Walker, standing at the foot of the shaft waiting for the answering signal from above, heard the noise and the rush of Mag's body as it bumped from side to side in its mad descent, and starting back, he was just in time to get clear as the mangled mass of rags and blood and pulpy flesh fell with a loud splashy thud at the bottom, the blood spattering and "jauping" him and the bottomer, and blinding their eyes as it flew all over them. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
That was the day when he finished eagle, birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, to steal the trophy from Colin Montgomerie, who had turned up wearing his saltire sweater, a champion in waiting.
Love is a kind of chance encounter, and one can neither waiting nor preparing for it.
Whether a prisoner awaiting execution has the right to have a baby, is a point of dispute in the legal field.
On the day of the wedding, I remember dressing in that pink dress with inexpressible joy, for it was the moment I had been waiting for since the seamstress had first measured me for my clothing.
After several years of waiting, the film has finally been released on DVD, and it is a must-see.
All these ships being of notable and approued seruice comming neere to the mouth of the Straights hard by the coast of Barbary, descried twelue tall Gallies brauely furnished and strongly prouided with men and munition, ready to seaze vpon these English ships: which being perceiued by the Captaines and Masters thereof, wee made speedy preparation for the defence of our selues, still waiting all the night long for the approching of the enemie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Materialistic types can turn the page because there are no riches awaiting the winner.
The second Act seemed to be set in a corridor-as-waiting-room typical of many hospitals I have visited, but with the rear wall being a flat of painted forest.
Community plans, future urbanizing area plans, suburban cities' general plans are nearly all written and waiting for implementation.
Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life. April 2007
He reveals that he is impatiently awaiting permission to travel again and eager to be in the field.
Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants' clinics.
The tope work around the rising edges and base of these banks scaring up dabs, whiting and gurnards that hug the sand waiting for food to be brought to them by the tide.
Cars waiting to turn right on to Carleton Road from Skipton hold all the outgoing traffic up as cars coming into Skipton won't give way on a green light.
Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
The legal teams shuttle back and forth between the contending parties on a settlement quest which may save the horrendous costs of a High Court hearing and the strain of a two year waiting period for a listing.
In her pigeonhole a batch of envelopes was waiting for her from the afternoon's post. THE WHITE DOVE
A small number were waiting on the solid rock-filled reach, the wharfinger's office at its head and a stone warehouse blocking the end, where the _Nautilus_ lay with her high-steeved bowsprit pointing outward. Java Head
I was waiting with bated breath for him to say something, anything, that wasn't a cliché. DEAD BEAT
Two British flyers are awaiting trial on smuggling charges. Times, Sunday Times
`I've got a busload waiting to go to Newbury so I can't take it. TICKLED PINK
The money would be used to reduce waiting times and to provide a new outreach service for people with long-term illnesses. Times, Sunday Times
She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise.
He drew long, soft, angry breaths, waiting mute and dangerous inside his helplessness like a beast in its lair.
Clean drinking water for millions, waiting to be tapped from the polar ice. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Karen Dionne, part 1
A blogger who underwent a heart and lung transplant is back on the waiting list after her body rejected the new lungs. Times, Sunday Times
It was as though I had opened a faucet that everyone was just waiting to see opened, so they could start throwing the conjecture around.
A few families were waiting to greet them, but most headed in the direction of the cabstand.
Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job.
Too true, and it will save me a lot of time waiting for common sense to wither away and true Naderism to arrive. Archive 2007-06-01
Our creative sector is like a coiled spring just waiting to be set free. Times, Sunday Times
I was waiting in the twilight semi-darkness, yawning, eyes half closed, and basically looking like a zombie.
One, several people mention that Paul Martin slashed funding to Health Canada, resulting in the current, infamous long waiting times. More answers
And then there is the lofted crossfield kick into the waiting arms of the wingers. Times, Sunday Times
There's somebody waiting to see you.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde
Terrified relatives waiting to collect family in Manchester feared the airliner had been hijacked. The Sun
They are now waiting for the results of a second blood test taken more than a year ago. The Sun
I press up against the lockers after final bell, waiting for Z to situate things in his backpack and get his lock secured just so. Camo Girl
the army was in the field awaiting action
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
Young, a talented quarterback, was waiting in the wings for the day when Montana couldn't play.
Two builders have, however, got the plans, and we are waiting for their sp-s-p-i-f - oh! spiflication; why, wot can that be? ' The Battle and the Breeze
Sarah's mother was waiting in the passage outside the doctor's room.
Under the "favored applications clause," a person whose knowledge of any particular subject was unique and authoritative, whether the topic were Esperanto or fistiana, went to the head of the waiting -- list automatically and had his initiation fee remitted. Average Jones
A grove of crotons became a magical jungle where snakes and other exotic creatures lurked, waiting to pounce.
This last revolutionary had cheated the State by committing suicide while awaiting execution, but was not allowed to cheat the guillotine.
Wonder what craziness is waiting for us out there. Happy New Year
Then it was rolled down to the water's edge along a walkway and loaded on to a powder hoy to be ferried to the waiting warship.
And Heworth are waiting to hear whether it means an extra team could be promoted from division two to make up the numbers - giving the York side an extra promotion place to fight for.
The Bible calls him an insurrectionist and a murderer, so he was an imprisoned terrorist awaiting execution.
A Mrs Green is waiting to see you.
We've been waiting here since two o'clock.
And who knows what creep will be waiting on the roadside to accompany them.
Upon one of the boughs, high off the ground, almost indiscernible from the night around it, a hunched form sat motionless, as if waiting.
It was a moot point for investors who stood behind the company in troubled times two springs ago but who are awaiting the resumption of dividend payments. Times, Sunday Times
The setting is a hospital waiting room in Regina, where three friends reunite after an old chum attempts suicide.
He spent the best part of a year waiting for the allegations to be dismissed. Times, Sunday Times
We are still waiting for a full explanation from the teacher concerned.
More than a third of those waiting need a new kidney and have to be hooked up to a dialysis machine four times a week. The Sun
They have been remanded in custody awaiting trial. Times, Sunday Times
UV 55 was waiting where I'd left it the previous evening, halfway along the bay, so I wandered up and stood leaning against its side. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
Here, my eyes would glaze over as I flash backed to the summer I spent putting little purple microdot tabs of mescaline in my mouth, waiting for that hallucinatory high.
And I had him walk out of the door, down the steps, out the gate; and there was a woman waiting for him.
A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
Stripped of its own genetic instructions, the recipient egg cell is a tiny biological machine awaiting orders.
Punch was waiting, small and silent, in his leather apron.
This voyage made more history than money as on the way down the vessel was neaped, waiting for water near Guyhurn Bridge for almost 2 weeks.
Another flower well worth waiting for is the autumn colchicum, Colchicum speciosum.
The cardinal who's just been elected pope goes there to put on the vestments he'll wear when he appears to the crowd waiting below in St. Peter's Square.
`I've got a busload waiting to go to Newbury so I can't take it. TICKLED PINK
I have come into villages where, had we acted a domineering part, and rummaged every hut, we should have found nothing; but by sitting down quietly, and waiting with patience until the villagers were led to form a favorable opinion of us, a woman would bring out a shellful of the precious fluid from I know not where. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
It allows me to take advantage of travel time, time spent waiting in lobbies, and most recently time spent on jury duty, to blast through some fantastic books and escape from some of the more mundane times in one's life. What's Your Favorite Bookstore?

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