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waiting

(= ready and waiting) being and remaining ready and available for use waiting cars and limousines lined the curb found her mother waiting for them an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests military forces ready and waiting (= wait) the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something) the wait was an ordeal for him

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Simple sentences

Wait in the waiting room.
Who are you waiting for?
I've been waiting for you for over an hour.
I don't feel like waiting any longer.
Everybody is waiting for you.
Don't keep me waiting here like this.
No one is waiting at the bus stop. We may have missed the bus.
Waiting for a bus, I met my friend.
How long have you been waiting for the bus?
Where's the waiting room?
We men are used to waiting for the women.
They are waiting for you in front of the door.
I've been waiting for hours.
The students stood waiting for a bus.
We've been waiting for hours for you to show up.
What're you waiting for?
I've got to hang up now. Someone is waiting to use the phone.
After waiting all day, the workers were still looking for a break in the weather so they could resume the search.

Movie subtitles

We're late, I hope he's waiting for us.
Everyone's waiting.
I'm not gonna lay around waiting for him to come stab me in the back.
Because of you, everybody is doing nothing and waiting for you.
I wanted to meet you so I was waiting in front of your house.
Sorry, dying man waiting for me.
Just waiting for the sats reading to come up.
Um. Illyana is a match for a patient waiting for a kidney transplant.
We're just waiting for your donor.
Well, then, what the Heloise are you waiting for?
We're waiting on Scholls for an I.D. and a cause of death.
It feels like I've been waiting seven years for Phillip to propose, because I have.
What have we said about standing places, quietly waiting for people?
She was waiting outside.
Leila is waiting for you.
She's waiting for you outside.
What's the army waiting for?
So what's he waiting for? It's time to give that territory its own statute.
I'm still waiting.
Talabot has been waiting for you for half an hour.
She's being waiting for you for 2 days.
Bismarck was waiting for it.
They're dropping them at random, just waiting us out 'til we give up.
Waiting on Reddington.
You're right, and there is the target, that I'm waiting for.
Please allow me a little longer as I'm waiting here for my brother.
What are you waiting for?
Bob's waiting.
Yeah, waiting for that one.
Derek's outside, waiting for Lydia. Waiting to kill her?
Isn't he waiting for you in the room?
Gim Hang A's father is currently waiting for her.
Were you waiting?
I've been waiting so long for you.
I've kept you waiting.
I'll be waiting for you.

News and current affairs

For the really hard work is only now beginning: dealing with all the internal practical and political problems that these enlargements will bring, as well as reckoning with countries in the membership waiting rooms, in particular Russia.
Instead, the EU kept Turkey waiting yet again, putting off formal negotiations that, in any case, may take years to complete.
Encouraging foreign investment or liberalizing everything and then waiting for things to improve does not work.
So hundreds of us are still waiting, most without prestigious scholarships to draw the world's attention.
So what are the Europeans waiting for?
And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.
In such conditions, most firms and consumers will be cautious about spending - an option value of waiting - thus further weakening the economy.
This might be a way round the majority voting dilemma, since it would allow groups of member states to cooperate together in particular areas, without waiting for the unanimous agreement of all partners.
But the world cannot hold its breath waiting for a change of heart by Putin and China, which is why a no-fly zone should be examined as a military option.
I still recall the difficulty that I faced, as South Korea's foreign minister, in convincing Bush administration policymakers to negotiate with North Korea instead of merely applying pressure and waiting for the North to capitulate.
There are few heroes in politics; waiting for the politicians would be to wait too long.
Until France and Germany do change, Europe's game must be a waiting game.
And the world is still waiting for the US to implement a 2010 reform of the IMF that would strengthen the position of China and other large emerging economies in the institution's governance structure.
But skeptics reply that China is merely waiting for its economy to lay the basis for future hegemony.
In Kampala, Dr. Mugyenyi has begun placing new patients on a waiting list.
When they do, I will probably still be here in my father's house, waiting for the blockade to end.
Instead of waiting for challenges to arise, young men should begin establishing their priorities now.
Waiting until 2013 to implement these restructurings, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes, will destroy confidence, as it implies a much larger haircut on residual private claims on sovereign borrowers.
Waiting to restructure unsustainable debts would only lead to disorderly workouts and severe haircuts for some private creditors.
Pakistan versus India is a devastating conflict-in-waiting, and North Korea and Iran remain volatile sources of concern.
But they may also be waiting for the first external shock to puncture the Chavez balloon before they pounce.
Governments don't have the luxury of waiting forever, and they can no longer use the myth of popular quiescence to avoid initiating the necessary reforms that will address the public's underlying grievances.
In India, Rahul Gandhi is waiting in the wings, preparing to step into the shoes of his great-grandfather (Jawaharlal Nehru), grandmother (Indira Gandhi), and father (Rajiv Gandhi).

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