WAIT in a Sentence

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For WAIT, below is one of 420 sentences:
But she went without the shawl, for it was upstairs and her need to see Ashley and lay her troubles before him was too urgent to wait.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wait
 v.  allow time to go by, without doing much, until something happens or can happen
 v.  stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Flushed and breathing hard, she sat down on a stump to wait for her father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  If she had to wait much longer, Mammy would certainly come in search of her and bully her into the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Now, you wait right here till I come back, for I want to eat barbecue with you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  She could wait there until Ashley finished his adieux and then call to him when he came into the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  "I wouldn't want to wait," she said and her eyes were veiled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  He was willing to wait until her fears subsided, only--only-- He sighed as he twisted about seeking a comfortable position, for he was going away to the war so very soon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  But men who expected to die within a week or a month could not wait a year before they begged to call a girl by her first name, with "Miss," of course, preceding it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Yes, she could wait, could let Melanie have her happy hour of squeezing his arm and crying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Sherman did not wait for Hood to get himself in readiness to attack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  Impossible to do anything but sit with hammering heart and wait for Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  As Scarlett sat down, he mumbled: "We will wait for Mrs. O'Hara."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  But she went without the shawl, for it was upstairs and her need to see Ashley and lay her troubles before him was too urgent to wait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  The lawyers and doctors would go back to their professions and wait for clients who might never come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  "I hear you couldn't even wait two weeks for me," he said and gave a mock sigh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  All we can do now is wait and hope.
17  We hadn't bargained on such a long wait.
18  Let's wait till the rain stops.
19  Time does not wait for me, you forgot to take me away.
20  She bustled about trying to wait on two customers at once.
21  To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
22  The wait will not be very long, but your white-haired hair collapse hurt.
23  The wait was mercifully brief, little more than an hour.
24  He doesn't have the patience to wait.
25  The future belongs to him who knows how to wait.
26  All things will come round to him who will but wait.
27  Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
28  Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
29  I wait for you to come back and say you love me.
30  You were explicitly instructed to wait here.