waiting

The woman is waiting for a call.

What is the woman waiting for?

We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside.

It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop

Ask the name of the person waiting on you.

But we're waiting for a good driver to accelerate.

signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room.

Waiting for someone at the airport

I hope you are not to put out with me for the delay ,I had to stop for the Fred's home to pick up a book on my way here M : well , that's not a big deal ,but you might at least phone if you know you will keep someone waiting Q : what do we learn about the women

M : sorry to have kept you waiting ,Madam , I've located your luggage, it was left behind in Paris and won't arrive until later this evening W : oh ,I can't believe this ,have it been to delivered to my hotel then ,I guess Q :what happened to the woman's luggage

She often keeps other people waiting.

During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture.

I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.

One needs the designers, and perhaps the regulators, before the builders and operators, and each group of workers in training has to know there is work waiting beyond graduation.

After all, forced waiting requires patience.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

Good idea! Could you make sure the taxi will be waiting for me outside at 8: 00 p.m.?

He's still waiting for a flight out of New York.

I read somewhere that we spend a full third of our lives waiting.

I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a habit.

I'm waiting for the train to central station.

Into the complete silence of the waiting class came the teacher's sweet voice, "Good morning, children."

On march 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

One day, while waiting to go in for treatment, I had one of dr.

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about being late for school.

Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the lucky-break wait.

She'd watch me coming down her street, and by the time I'd biked up to her doorstep, there'd be a cold drink waiting.

Such activities fill the spaces that used to be dead time such as waiting for somebody to arrive for a lunch meeting.

The girls on the wesleyan academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm, eighth-grader Taylor bisbee shivered a little as she watched her teammate Paris white play.

The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

The very purest form of waiting is the watched-pot wait.

There were many people waiting at the bus stop, and some of them looked very anxious and disappointed.

Turning one's life into a waiting game requires faith and hope, and is strictly for the optimists among us.

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

We certainly do spend a good deal of our time waiting.

We have been waiting here for more than two hours.

You are waiting at a wrong place.

You go ahead, and I'll catch up on some sports news while waiting.

But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while waiting for a warrant.

Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.