wait upon
Example Sentences
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Ships are waiting two days to dock there while nearby Shekou is not accepting vessels until March 19, when the wait upon reopening is expected to be three days.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022
You still haven't answered my point: even in the UK, the mother of parliaments, do you really think the cabinet ministers wait upon parliament before taking any decisions?
From Economist • Aug. 3, 2012
“However grand their aspirations, they wait upon the will of people in power,” he writes.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2010
The estimaters were a delegation, mostly Chicagoans, who had been chosen by a recent German-American conference in Manhattan to wait upon Spokesman Hubert Work.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a time I remained out of school to wait upon my mother, then Granny came to visit us and I returned to school.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
