"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
2. wait interminably = poczekaj bez końca wait interminably
  • She handed the youth her credit card and waited interminably for him to bring it back, along with the slip for her to sign.
  • We waited interminably.
  • Cursing, he chose to take the stairs rather than wait interminably for the vertical steam lift.
  • Rainouts here, days off there: The effect has been to make the team's starting pitchers wait interminably between starts.
  • Are we to wait interminably for results to appear after months of research?
  • She asked his mother's name, then put him on hold, where it seemed he waited interminably.
  • Furious had held things together while waiting interminably for the new through-deckers, Invincible and Illustrious, to be completed.
  • After waiting interminably for the first crocus, they brusquely turn away from that harbinger to anticipate forsythia.
  • I held the head and again waited interminably while the farmer went to the house.
  • Also, try overcoming your good manners: consider not waiting interminably for the stoplight to change.
(21) placidly, kindly
Kolokacji: 2

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