waited on
Example Sentences
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In fiscal year 2024, the American Immigration Council estimated that asylum-seekers waited on average three and half years before being granted asylum.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026
While Lee waited on word from the mine, she scoured the internet for jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
"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 • Nov. 25, 2025
On the afternoon of May 18, 1926, Aimee went for a swim at Venice Beach while her secretary waited on shore.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025
It did not come, and after playing long enough for even Mrs. Cobb to shush him out, he waited on the back porch.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
