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Example sentences for: waits

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

She has to want these as a new life, not as stopgaps while she waits for him to return.
And for a good two decades--until about six months ago, in fact--I listened to one of my favorite Tom Waits songs, "I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)," thinking the Ninth Ward was a wing of Bellevue rather than a neighborhood in New Orleans.
Moreover, unless the Postal Service is incapable of shedding volume variable costs or waits until 2008 before adjusting First--Class rates, the price of a stamp does not have to go up by 17 cents.
The possible Iraq attack takes a number and waits.
The Post waits till the seventh paragraph to mention the bills need to be "sharply scaled down" before Clinton signs it--wimpy wordy considering Clinton said earlier, "I will not allow a risky plan to become law."