wait out
Example Sentences
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“The company is effectively paying investors to wait out yet another transition year.”
“I was knighted after defeating the Shadow Queen and leaving her in the tower to wait out her lifetime sentence. But Ella didn’t include that, did she? It’s all right. I’ve been writing my own version of what happened. Anyway, you were saying— What are your names again?”
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Those stranded in their cars have been moved into the shelters to wait out the storm.
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She might have to find a place to shelter and wait out the storm.
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America’s private sector added 22,000 jobs last month, human-resources firm ADP estimated on Wednesday, a signal of cooler job growth last month while economists wait out a delay in the government’s official labor-market readout caused by this week’s shutdown.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.