This page shows Wait in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like delay or waiting. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Wait in a sentence
Related words
Wait meaning
- To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
- To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
Example sentences (20)
After a week, you can either dump it into your backyard tumbler or wait for your preferred compost collection service.
Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in August 2021, at the end to Afghanistan's 20-year war.
After a long wait, the Denver Nuggets will know who they are facing in the NBA Finals on Monday night.
According to an exclusive by The Hollywood Reporter, fans won't have to wait as long for a Shazam!
Trump's supporters kept saying "Wait until the Supreme Court; wait until the Supreme Court; we have our 3 Justices".
Unlike my children having to wait their turn to receive my attention, we don’t have to wait for our turn with God.
I wait and wait for the policeman to ask him to move on but, instead, he asks him a question about tree-planting.
The initial rescue plan was to wait out the monsoon season, or at least to wait until the boys regained strength.
To quote the offending passage: “Wonder if I can say the n-word (wait for real?) / Wait, can I really say the n-word?
He’s not saying, Wait a minute, wait a minute, this version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever!
An app on their phone tells them if there is a wait time (yes, there is a long wait for the giant zip line).
After a painful week's wait, doctors finally confirmed that the pregnancy wasn't viable.
The wait between the debut was 13 years, so a three-year wait for the third installment will come as a relief to audiences.
There is no explicit "end" instruction; instead, the WAIT instruction is used to wait for a location which is never reached.
And while I wait for Kricket: Lite, I can’t wait to go back and eat that pumpkin in the restaurant again.
While Newt and her brother wait for her parents to investigate, we grit our teeth and wait for what we know is bound to happen.
All the Packers have to do is wait until the Jets increase their offer, or wait until Rodgers retires.
One of these commands will be the wait command, allowing players to wait to pass the time in the game.
Aberdeen manager Barry Robson has had to wait for his chance in the Dons hotseat.
But don't wait; these processors are capable of some remarkable power, and I, for one, can't wait to put them through their paces.
Phrases with wait
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with wait
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to wait 67×
- wait for 57×
- wait to 38×
- wait until 30×
- wait wait 24×
- and wait 20×
- the wait 17×
- wait and 14×
- can wait 14×
- wait time 13×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word wait. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.