Example sentences for: awaiting

How can you use “awaiting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The South China Morning Post talked of "unprecedented diplomatic pressure" being imposed on the increasingly insecure President Suharto of Indonesia, who, it said, was awaiting further frantic, bossy telephone calls (following those he had already received from President Clinton and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia) from Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

  • We no longer are in the position evoked by Auden, passively awaiting a connection with the outside world through the postman.

  • Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest in England, is too sick to be tried on the human rights charges awaiting him in Spain.

  • Talk-show host Larry King had two beautiful weddings to infomercial host Shawn Southwick--one in his hospital bed, while awaiting heart surgery, and one post-angioplasty in Beverly Hills.

  • Even before learning of Abdullah's alleged jailhouse conversations, we attempted to interview him in November 2003, while he was incarcerated and awaiting deportation.


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