Sentence for waiting | Use waiting in a sentence

Waiting example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use waiting in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for waiting.

  • The presses are waiting. (16)
  • Have you been waiting long? (4)
  • He ought to have been waiting. (8)
  • Madame is waiting for some one? (8)
  • Sorry to have kept you waiting. (8)
  • The count was waiting in the car. (12)
  • Soames looked at him waiting there. (8)
  • Everyone was already there, waiting. (8)
  • Emilia shut her eyes, waiting for more. (10)
  • She stands waiting to hear her sentence. (8)
  • Mr. Harness from the Union, waiting, sir. (8)
  • Mr. Crawford must not be kept longer waiting. (4)
  • You are waiting to hear what I have to tell. (10)
  • Gratian sat on alone, waiting for her husband! (8)
  • Lady Bertram seemed quite resigned to waiting. (4)
  • Every man a kind of wolf waiting to pounce on her! (8)
  • Isolde Schirmacher was still waiting in the hall. (12)
  • Besides, we are waiting to administer an anaesthetic. (9)
  • All you had to do was to keep willing it, and waiting. (9)
  • And without waiting for permission he opened the door. (8)
  • He is waiting at home to be told he may call on your father. (10)
  • Then she saw that others of those waiting had found their men. (8)
  • Christian found her things packed, and the two servants waiting. (8)
  • At the entrance of the little restaurant she saw Mr. Cuthcott waiting. (8)
  • It was tiresome to be perpetually waiting for the return of this word. (10)
  • The unadulterate is to be had only by faith in it or by waiting for it. (10)
  • Next day, while waiting before that picture, he looked at it with wonder. (8)
  • Leone was waiting in the carriage to drive to the ferry across the Adige. (10)
  • The shores were closely lined by canal boats waiting their turn at the lock. (2)
  • She was waiting for her brother, who had gone across the street to buy bread. (12)
  • Perhaps they joked away the weary hours of waiting; they must have their jokes. (9)
  • The loneliness was damp and mouldy and ugly, and seemed to be waiting for man. (12)
  • If to a concert, he would be a few paces from the door, waiting for her entrance. (8)
  • Waiting for his turn to speak, he had marked them down as men after his own heart. (8)
  • Lady Summerhay was in the boudoir, waiting for dinner and reading a book on dreams. (8)
  • Scarcely had I entered the porch, when I found him waiting my arrival, candle in hand. (6)
  • He was waiting for the midges to bite him, before abandoning the glory of the afternoon. (8)
  • Felix was waiting in the hall, at a little table on which stood a bowl of bread and milk. (8)
  • He sits there waiting for the sunlight; I here, and readier to be musical than you think. (10)
  • Still she did not go, and there was an interval in which she had the air of vaguely waiting. (9)
  • As fast as a performer finishes his act his appliance is deftly conveyed to a waiting wagon. (21)
  • I can see the general walking up and down the bank of a great river, waiting to speak to you. (18)
  • Without waiting for an answer he strode to the farther end of the room and opened a trap-door. (13)
  • A week later he arrived (there was now a railway) and found Pippin waiting for him in a phaeton. (8)
  • And while he stood there waiting, Susie and Billy emerged from the kitchen and came to stare at him. (8)
  • As she ceased, the entrance door opened again, and the very party appeared for whom they were waiting. (4)
  • The sun had fallen well behind the home wood when the guns stood waiting for the last drive of the day. (8)
  • She might be in a bed, with her window-blind up, calmly waiting for the flashes: lightning excited her. (10)
  • When he came up at last Pippin was still waiting, pocket-book in hand; they again departed at a furious pace. (8)
  • The tune died and was renewed, and died again, and still Soames sat in the shadow, waiting for he knew not what. (8)
  • And yet he knew, and she knew, that they were only waiting to see whether Fate would turn her thumb down on them. (8)
  • Just inside the gate, through which had passed in their time so many dead and living shadows, Hilary stood waiting. (8)
  • Noorna was on the mountain in outer Aklis with Koorookh, waiting for the appearance of her betrothed, Sword in hand. (10)
  • Dorothea and Virginia were seated in the room below, waiting for their carriage, when the hall-door spoke of the Hon. (10)
  • The position of things looked so propitious that he naturally thought the powers waiting on love conspired in his behalf. (10)
  • Dismissing the ferry-barge with stern injunctions to be in waiting from noon to noon, the three leapt on their fresh nags. (10)
  • Upstairs the drawing-room was darkened, waiting for some hand to give it evening light; and she passed on up to her bedroom. (8)
  • She makes as if to withdraw from an unwarranted intrusion, but suddenly turning, stands, with lips pressed together, waiting. (8)
  • She determined to show nothing of the trouble darkening the whole world for her, and drew a deep breath, waiting for his kiss. (8)
  • Their defenders entered the houses right and left during the cannonade, waiting to meet the charge; but the Austrians held off. (10)
  • She went forward without waiting for the answer, but before she could reach it the door opened, and Lapham stood filling its space. (9)
  • There they stood above the wide country, their bodies outlined against a sky fast growing light, evidently waiting for the sun to rise. (8)
  • Mrs. Horace Bushfield was already waiting for her in the foyer of the hotel, where a number of suburban luncheon parties were assembling. (13)
  • It was just such a sound as many times, in the long-past days, had escaped himself, waiting, listening for footsteps, in parched and sickening anxiety. (8)
  • When the Luganese returned he thrust the card into his hand, and walked out between the tall poplars, waiting, like ragged ghosts, silver with moonlight. (8)

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