Example sentences for: waits

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

  • It waits till its seventh paragraph to notice that across the services, the gender difference in attrition is only 5 percent and till the 24th paragraph to mention that unmarried women can get pregnant and still get out of the service with an honorable discharge, and even then never pauses to wonder how closing this loophole might change the situation.

  • The NYT lead spends a good deal of ink high up addressing the question of whether or not Israel helped carry out Ocalan's abduction, but waits until the last sentence of the piece--at the end of the 34th paragraph--to state the Clinton administration's denial of involvement.

  • The paper waits until the ninth paragraph to mention that, oh by the way, both of these developments are from today's issue of Nature . The Times does it right, giving Nature credit at the start of the third paragraph.

  • All California seems to agree that the state's child support programs needed today's legislative fix, but the LAT waits until after the jump to describe what's wrong, and how the reforms will fix it.

  • Baker's pedophile is so furtive that he's almost immobile, but we register the darting eyes under the bland, Mr. Rodgers-like façade, and as he waits for a little boy to eat a drugged tuna sandwich, we hold our breaths the way we did in Psycho when Norman Bates watched the car with the body of Marian Crane almost not sink into the swamp.


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