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2551 examples of Waiting in a sentence

Hundreds of tribes are waiting their turn.
It's easy for doctors to see my mom as a kind of professional patient, a woman who just spends her days in waiting rooms.
I am still waiting for a call from the MTA.
There was the night Amber went out on mission, and in talking to the women of the house, realized that there was a barricaded shooter lying in wait for the Afghan and American forces who were waiting to enter the home.
This is a medium waiting for its Orson Welles or its Stanley Kubrick, and I have no doubt that they will soon emerge and be recognized as such.
When I met the imam for the first time, and I told him what I wanted to do, he was like, "Thank God you finally came," and he told me that for years he was waiting for somebody to do something on it.
We have to stop waiting until we see evidence of a disease becoming a global threat before we consider it as one.
The things that we have in our head that we think are impossible are often just milestones waiting to be accomplished if we can push those limits a bit.
Because despite all we've taken, despite all we've done and we've drained and we've dammed and we've dredged it, pieces of it are still here, waiting to be put back together.
"No Signs of Struggle" Growing small requires enormity of will: just sitting still in the doctor's waiting room watching the future shuffle in and out, watching it stoop; stare at you while you try not to look.
I lived in fear, and, to put it bluntly, was waiting for death to finally release me, expecting to die all alone in a care home.
After 114 years of waiting, there's finally real hope for what can be achieved in the next 10 or 20 years.
When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker.
Our testing showed that women were raped waiting in their cars, waiting for friends, on their way to work, on their way from work, at gas stations, at shopping malls.
He's still waiting for his funeral in Norway, and none of his family will be able to attend.
And I'm always waiting in eager nervous anticipation around sound, about what's to come next.
Drive by any Footlocker at 8am on a Saturday morning, and there will be a line down the street and around the block, and sometimes those kids have been waiting there all week.
Albatrosses frequently fly six, sometimes ten thousand miles over several weeks to deliver one meal, one big meal, to their chick who is waiting for them.
"It's raining cats and dogs out," we say, or "I was waiting for the other shoe to drop."
Ever since you were young, your parents taught you the importance of waiting in line and taking your turn.
But, with so much of the universe waiting to be explored, the stakes are high.
It's full of untouched food stores and a brood of unborn larvae, suggesting that the adults vacated without waiting for them to hatch.
I mean, imagine yourself here in this room, if you were suddenly plunged into blackness, with your only job to find the exit, sometimes swimming through these large spaces, and at other times crawling beneath the seats, following a thin guideline, just waiting for the life support to provide your very next breath.
So if every inch of the body is ready and waiting for you to move, what happens when you just don't?
Ultimately, this underappreciated punctuation mark can give writing clarity, force, and style, all encompassed in one tiny dot and squiggle that's just waiting to be put in the right place.
But remember, the lab assistant has been waiting on the other side, and she's the second fastest of the group.
So we were waiting for more data to release that.
We are still waiting, tweaking away, in silos rather than working together.
For me, it conjures up images of passivity, of someone sitting idly in an armchair waiting for knowledge to come to him in a neat little parcel.
So as I tell my story today, I'd also like to convey to you that hidden power can be found in the most unassuming places, and we all possess skills that are just waiting to be discovered.
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