Example sentences for: long-awaited

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

  • The Washington Post , the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times all lead with the Senate's impressive 100-0 endorsement of a long-awaited impeachment trial roadmap, as they heeded Senator Robert Byrd's oratorical kick in the pants: "The White House has sullied itself.

  • To refer to the publication of the first volume of the HDAS is long-awaited would be to give away no secret, for many linguists have long been aware of Jonathan Lighter's announcement of his project several years ago, and it was Stuart Flexner's coup to grab it for Random House.

  • Bunter's long-awaited postal order was a joke every boy understood, but Frank Richards was clever enough to adapt his use of schoolboy slang to the changed times.

  • And to say that Nancy Milford's biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay is long-awaited would be--as James himself might have said--putting too fine a point on it.

  • The recent demolition of the undistinguished church next the Palau is part of a long-awaited expansion plan.


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