wait on

Example Sentences

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“Copy, yeah, we prefer to wait on a gate, but I mean, again, we only got so much time here because there's still a bit of an odor in the back of the airplane.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Forest made their hosts wait on the pitch almost four minutes before emerging for the second half, Tottenham will have wished they had stayed in the dressing room.

From BBC

The NSW Ambulance Service said it received a call just three minutes before the plane landed, and emergency vehicles were waiting on the tarmac.

From BBC

I’m waiting on the bank and may need a court order to trace the missing funds and fully resolve the situation.

From MarketWatch

I soon knew that I wanted to do more than wait on customers and keep the accounts.

From Literature