wait on

Example Sentences

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"You become old when you sit down and expect to be waited on," he told fellow senior actors on the travel show Grandpas over Flowers.

From BBC

So, the tense process of the Treasury waiting on every bit of number crunching from the OBR will happen only in the run up to a full Budget.

From BBC

As workers cleaned his Toyota Camry, a retired history professor waited on a bench, reading a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

From Los Angeles Times

Those rules are still waiting on EPA approval.

From Seattle Times

In Vermont, for instance, funding worries and data modernization needs contributed to the state health department’s decision to wait on starting its own wastewater surveillance program, according to officials at the agency.

From Scientific American