Explore Waits through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Waits in a sentence
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Waits meaning
plural of wait
Using Waits
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of wait
- In the example corpus, waits often appears in combinations such as: waits for, waits to, he waits.
Context around Waits
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Waits
- In this selection, "waits" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, week, citation, diagnostic, joins, himself and soundalike stand out and add context to how "waits" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 65 week waits and 78 and 78 week waits. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "waits" sits close to words such as admired, canterbury and dough, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with waits
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He waits and waits for rescue to come, but none ever does. (12 words)
The defender waits, waits and then goes to ground to block the shot. (13 words)
Board chairman David Wakefield asked: “I’m mindful there are 65 (week waits) and 78 (week waits). (17 words)
Shot practically in real time, waits along with our character as she waits for life-changing news, floating from coffee shop to home to park to wherever, not doing much of anything with the life she has, the life she may find out she’s losing soon enough. (48 words)
Jim Jarmusch directed a promotional music video for the song. citation Waits also collaborated with photographer Sylvia Plachy in the same year; her book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour includes a short Waits record to accompany the photographs and text. (40 words)
The business case for private clinics only works if there are long waits in the public system — so there’s actually an incentive for double-dipping doctors in private practice to prolong waits for their public-sector patients. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Board chairman David Wakefield asked: “I’m mindful there are 65 (week waits) and 78 (week waits).
He waits and waits for rescue to come, but none ever does.
Diagnostic waits of more than six weeks dropped by 71 per cent and, for waits of more than 13 weeks, by 80 per cent.
The defender waits, waits and then goes to ground to block the shot.
Shot practically in real time, waits along with our character as she waits for life-changing news, floating from coffee shop to home to park to wherever, not doing much of anything with the life she has, the life she may find out she’s losing soon enough.
The business case for private clinics only works if there are long waits in the public system — so there’s actually an incentive for double-dipping doctors in private practice to prolong waits for their public-sector patients.
Bambarger, Bradley, "Tom Waits Joins Indie Epitaph for Mule Set", in Monanton, Innocent When You Dream, p.209 Waits himself was full of praise for the label, saying "Epitaph is rare for being owned and operated by musicians.
Frito-Lay hired a Waits soundalike to sing a jingle similar to the song "Step Right Up" from the album Small Change, which is a song Waits has called "an indictment of advertising".
In 2007, the suit was settled, and Waits gave the sum to charity. citation Waits has also filed a lawsuit unrelated to music.
Jim Jarmusch directed a promotional music video for the song. citation Waits also collaborated with photographer Sylvia Plachy in the same year; her book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour includes a short Waits record to accompany the photographs and text.
The company had approached Waits to use one of his songs in an advertisement, which Waits declined.
The song "Blue Valentines" was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits' vocal.
This was the first of several collaborations between Waits and the group; Frontman Les Claypool would appear on several subsequent Waits releases.
Waits beatboxes on the opening track, "Top of the Hill", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's "vocal percussion" improvisations.
Waits developed his acting career with several supporting roles and a lead role in Jim Jarmusch 's Down by Law in 1986, which also featured two of Waits's songs from Rain Dogs in the soundtrack.
Waits undertook legal action, and a Spanish court recognized that there had been a violation of Waits's moral rights in addition to the infringement of copyright.
Accompanying photographs showed teams unloading aid packages from the aircraft while a military truck, draped with the flags of Russia and Libya, waits on the tarmac at Benghazi’s Benina airport.
According to Moslener, in annotated by the True Love Waits initiative, the movement’s founder spoke of sexually pure people bringing about a national renewal.
Almost a year on, the single parent said her life is on hold as she waits for an inquest - due to take place on July 17 - a year and a day after student Kalen died.
Among the show’s new cast members is Williams, who joins the cast as Sackson Paxton, a wannabe social-media influencer who works at while he waits to become a big internet star.
Common combinations with waits
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- waits for 68×
- waits to 34×
- he waits 18×
- she waits 18×
- waits in 18×
- long waits 14×
- and waits 11×
- waits of 11×
- waits at 8×
- waits and 7×