"wait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things.
- She felt it even then, as Jake Spoon stood there in her room, drunk almost to the point of nausea, with his pants open, pointing himself at her and waiting sullenly.
- He drove the tortoise to the designated spot, and waited sullenly for orders.
- Hardly legendary, the character is a run-of-the-mill narcissist hounded by groupies who sullenly wait for him to attend them in their rooms.
- As I waited sullenly at my fourth stoplight in as many intersections, the faint notes of bird song penetrated my consciousness.
- She jerked her thumb over her shoulder in the direction of Seldon, who was waiting outside sullenly.
- At another fortified position, policemen stood sullenly waiting to be picked up, some wearing blue bandanas around their heads.
- The girl, on a youth training scheme, was waiting sullenly for an opening in a hairdresser's.
- His mother put him on the bed and nursed him as best she could, while his father stood by the curtains, sullenly waiting for the Harkonnens to return.
- We fought and bickered and sullenly waited to grow up and get out from under.
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