await
Usage
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The verb await (wait for) implies being alert and ready, whether for good or evil: to await news after a cyclone. Hope implies a wish that an event may take place and an expectation that it will: to hope for the best. Expect implies confidently believing, usually for good reasons, that an event will occur: to expect a visit from a friend. To anticipate is to look forward to an event and even to picture it: Do you anticipate trouble?
Example Sentences
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Stock futures were mostly lower as traders mull bank earnings and await U.S. consumer price index data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
This is not the freezer as bunker, or the freezer as punishment, or the freezer as the place where leftovers go to await their eventual quiet disposal.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Now we await a reprise of her jeans and white T-shirt red carpet look from last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
A DUP spokesperson said O'Neill should await the outcome of an independent review "rather than prejudging that process".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
When the tests were finished, Tiller and Sairy took Lucy home to await the results.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
Madonna walks back into the past one final time on the album’s closing track, “L.E.S. Girl,” fondly calling her last days before superstardom, where the memory of a long-lost love with dirty hair awaits her.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Farage now awaits the decision of the parliamentary commissioner for standards – his judgement about the £5m gift and whether he will look into these latest revelations.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
As one legal saga appears to be coming to an end, another awaits Brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Reflecting on the massive challenge that awaits him and all Venezuelans to rebuild their lives, he said: "Let's take it one step at a time; we have to live one day at a time."
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“What awaits us on the morrow? More rain?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Phillips was placed back on dialysis as she awaited a transplant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The weeks-long hospitalization of Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader in the US Senate, was rattling his party's narrow majority on Tuesday as members awaited word on whether he would return.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Tuchel was left with Spence as last right-back standing, with James out and a medical bulletin awaited on Quansah.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Behind the scenes, the younger Ellison was growing frustrated as he awaited regulatory approval for the merger, and Paramount negotiated a high-stakes settlement with Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
When, early in April, they reached Boston, huge crowds awaited them in the railway station.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
The deal is still awaiting approval in the U.K. and European Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The freeze would halt any projects still awaiting a permit, the governor’s office said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We are also awaiting guidance from the relevant authorities before confirming funeral and memorial arrangements."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The small open spaces of the La Lucha neighborhood are filled with tents belonging to residents anxiously awaiting government repairs to their homes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
They creaked through rolling hills dotted with apple orchards stripped bare, past fields of brown earth awaiting the planting of oats and wheat.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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