waiting
Example Sentences
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“This is going to bring more public safety and more lights to neighborhoods that so desperately need it and that are waiting a long time,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
Shipbuilders, vessel owners, investors and legislators have been waiting for months for the document as a signal of the White House’s pledged commitment to a once-in-a-generation investment in shipbuilding and the maritime workforce.
California students in some places can attend charter schools if they clear the waiting list, but they have no private school choice.
Millar said his "raft of credible and fully costed positive policies" for Wales included cutting income tax by a penny in the pound, and cutting waiting lists in the NHS by declaring a health emergency.
From BBC
A common hope that the Guthries get a happier ending and the honest closeness of the “Today” crew only sharpens the tension of waiting for a break in the nearly two-week-old case.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
