"wait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Four empty milk bottles stood in a line on the doorstep, waiting vainly for a milkman who no longer called.
- The Administration seemed to bounce around aimlessly, waiting vainly for cooperation from the Chinese leadership.
- During the period that he waited vainly for his mother to come back, he led the pack many a wild chase through the adjacent woods.
- Harlan, waiting vainly for another sentence out of the old man, cleared his throat.
- Was Bruce the partner she had been vainly waiting all her adult life to find or was it just Skid?
- "I'm still out of my depth and swimming feeble," Daylight said, after waiting vainly for her to go on.
- He felt like a condemned man vainly waiting for a reprieve.
- He waited vainly to see who would do that.
- The lonely vampire vainly waits for someone to sit in the chair, too shy to venture from behind the curtain.
- After waiting vainly for six months for the general cancellation of debts, Antony was fed up.
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