wait

Example Sentences

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"Successful surgery completed, without complications. Now we wait for him to wake up from anesthesia," his spouse, Michelle Bolsonaro, announced in an Instagram post.

From Barron's

Jefferson gets his wish of rescue — but the steak, it turns out, will have to wait.

From Salon

I could be a crank and say I can’t wait for baseball to squander this momentum, or I could savor the sport-saving caffeine of the pitch clock and the Fall Classic’s screaming return from near-irrelevance.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I was the kid waiting up in the middle of the night, peeking, wondering if Santa’s down there. A lot of modern day kids aren’t having that journey.”

From Los Angeles Times

Some fans watching, plus my shadow, left a nice shape on the ice, leaving me to wait for the skaters to enter the frame.

From BBC