"wait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

wait verbo

verbo + wait
Kolokacji: 45
stand waiting • sit waiting • keep waiting • settle to wait • afford to wait • prefer to wait • decide to wait • mind waiting • forced to wait • ...
wait + preposición
Kolokacji: 50
wait for • wait until • wait around • wait outside • wait till • wait out • wait up • ...
wait + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 84
wait long • wait patiently • wait impatiently • hardly wait • wait anxiously • wait expectantly • wait outside • wait quietly • simply wait • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 21
(2) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(3) hardly, barely, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(5) expectantly, hopefully
Kolokacji: 2
(6) outside, inside
Kolokacji: 2
(7) quietly, restlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) simply, merely, well
Kolokacji: 3
(10) nervously, tensely
Kolokacji: 2
(11) politely, courteously
Kolokacji: 2
(12) calmly, coolly
Kolokacji: 2
(13) downstairs, below, upstairs
Kolokacji: 3
(14) indefinitely, clearly
Kolokacji: 2
(15) respectfully, humbly, meekly
Kolokacji: 3
(17) desperately, forlornly
Kolokacji: 2
(18) deliberately, purposely
Kolokacji: 2
(19) dutifully, obediently
Kolokacji: 2
(20) endlessly, interminably
Kolokacji: 2
1. wait endlessly = poczekaj w nieskończoność wait endlessly
  • A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers.
  • Flora wouldn't know, and she might wait endlessly at the ferry on her senseless errand.
  • I remember waiting endlessly for one team or the other to make a goal, which never seemed to happen.
  • His father Raghavan waits endlessly for his son to return.
  • The film was such a huge hit, that people used to stand in queues, waiting endlessly, to buy the film's tickets.
  • She waited endlessly for Jamie to return, but he did not.
  • Once I sat around endlessly waiting for a psychiatrist to get around to seeing me.
  • He worked long hours, sometimes waiting endlessly for just the right shot, sometimes using a roll of film within minutes.
  • According to local legend the girl's spirit still wanders the tower, endlessly waiting for her lover to arrive.
  • In the case of Akhmatova, she waited endlessly for news about her imprisoned son.
2. wait interminably = poczekaj bez końca wait interminably
(21) placidly, kindly
Kolokacji: 2

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