"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
1. wait anxiously = poczekaj z niepokojem wait anxiously
2. wait uneasily = poczekaj z trudem wait uneasily
3. wait fearfully = poczekaj bojaźliwie wait fearfully
4. wait apprehensively = poczekaj z lękiem wait apprehensively
  • He waited apprehensively, hoping that Orchid would not burst into tears.
  • She waited apprehensively, looking back over the small town of Port Orchard.
  • Laura waited apprehensively while the young doctor searched for the least painful words with which to convey some last bit of bad news.
  • Drayton, who had rarely seen his father at a loss for words, waited apprehensively.
  • He waited apprehensively, his eyes moving from the inspector to his client.
  • I waited apprehensively, tensing myself to dive at him if he made a sound.
  • I sat in the lobby waiting apprehensively for the mail.
  • One by one, they waited apprehensively to hear the results of their reviews.
  • Every day, the siblings endeavor to maintain the family farm, apprehensively waiting for their parents' return.
  • The Americans waited apprehensively for the final rotation to end.
(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
(21) placidly, kindly
Kolokacji: 2

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