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Waited meaning

simple past and past participle of wait

Using Waited

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of wait
  • In the example corpus, waited often appears in combinations such as: waited for, and waited, they waited.

Context around Waited

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Waited

  • In this selection, "waited" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, respondent, users, drivers, less, longer and outside stand out and add context to how "waited" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and 25 waited longer than and and city waited with bated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "waited" sits close to words such as taliban, weighed and boots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with waited

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

And you waited and waited for the next audio or video, right? (12 words)

Juan waited and waited for his mother to return home, but she never did. (14 words)

And I waited for them to give me some explanation that would appease me. (14 words)

That’s why I waited until I was thirty-four, which seems young, but I’ve been doing this since I was eighteen, so I had a lot of opportunities beforehand and I waited until I had my own voice and wanted to figure that out. (46 words)

A complaint has also been lodged by royal fan Alice Chambers, 36, who was held in custody for 13 hours after being mistaken for a Just Stop Oil protester as she waited on the Mall hoping to catch a glimpse of the King. (43 words)

A long line of Greeley-Evans School District 6 families and students stretched for a block Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 as they waited to get into the district’s 10th annual school kickoff community celebration at Island Grove Events Center in Greeley. (42 words)

And you waited and waited for the next audio or video, right? (12 words)

Example sentences (20)

For example, if your LCP score is 3 seconds, that means that 75% of your users waited less than 3 seconds for the main page content, and 25% waited longer than that.

The average black respondent waited 4.4 days to receive results and the average Hispanic respondent waited 4.1 days.

The people in those labor categories have waited and waited on the multimillion-dollar system the state set up to handle their claims.

All summer long parents and soon-to-be drivers waited in lines, and waited for answers.

And you waited and waited for the next audio or video, right?

Juan waited and waited for his mother to return home, but she never did.

Quite a bit of media attention has been directed at a school resource officer who waited several minutes after hearing gunfire before entering the building, as well as several other deputies who arrived moments later and waited outside.

That’s why I waited until I was thirty-four, which seems young, but I’ve been doing this since I was eighteen, so I had a lot of opportunities beforehand and I waited until I had my own voice and wanted to figure that out.

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Two-in-ten say they waited in line for 10 minutes or more, including 6% who report having waited for more than a half-hour (1% of in-person voters say their wait exceeded an hour).

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

A complaint has also been lodged by royal fan Alice Chambers, 36, who was held in custody for 13 hours after being mistaken for a Just Stop Oil protester as she waited on the Mall hoping to catch a glimpse of the King.

A Dunedin couple has waited more than four months for Air New Zealand to reimburse them for costs related to flight disruptions.

After finishing season three, I then watched season one, then season two, then seasons three and four again and then waited patiently for season five.

Ahead of the video’s release, the country and city waited with bated breath, and the city braced for unrest.

A long line of Greeley-Evans School District 6 families and students stretched for a block Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 as they waited to get into the district’s 10th annual school kickoff community celebration at Island Grove Events Center in Greeley.

Also, for the first time, supplies of cooking gas entered Gaza where people waited in lines that extended for two kilometres.

And I waited for them to give me some explanation that would appease me.

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is exactly the kind of game series fans have waited over a decade for.

As 2-year-old Kinslee waited inside Boston Juvenile Court to hear her name called, she rolled around on the ground and ran up a flight of stairs until her soon-to-be mother picked her up.

As Aditya-L1 begins its 1.5-m-km voyage towards the Sun, two Hyderabad-based companies waited with bated breath.

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Common combinations with waited

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "waited" in a sentence?
An example: "For example, if your LCP score is 3 seconds, that means that 75% of your users waited less than 3 seconds for the main page content, and 25% waited longer than that." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "waited" from authentic English texts.
What does "waited" mean?
Waited means: simple past and past participle of wait
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