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waiting

Definition for waiting

adjective as in remaining

noun as in abeyance

noun as in ambush

Strong matches

ambuscade, trap, trick

Weak match

ambushment

noun as in latency

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Example Sentences

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.

The first day of Liberty, I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in.

Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.

In a show about single women, Sex and The City was always in a rush to get to the altar—and with a man there waiting.

Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.

At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.

After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.

Sam sat opposite him in perfect silence, waiting, with eager curiosity, for the termination of the scene.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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