Sentence examples for Marking time until from inspiring English sources

Another back-street pub marking time until it's boarded-up.

"He'll be marking time until this is resolved," said the Rev. Raymond Daley.

So, they are told, if they will only hold their convention marking time until Saturday they will win.

"Vamp till ready" is music-business jargon for this Zen-like ritual of marking time until performance overtakes preparation.

"I will spend the rest of my life marking time until I can see my best friend again," said Mr. Weaver, who is 50.

This is what Davis understands so well; instead of marking time until the next sonic spectacular, as James Levine sometimes did while conducting "Trojans" at the Met, Davis exulted in all the oddities and incongruities.

Sometimes, I believe, he just gets through his story before the composer does, and so he sort of marks time until the music is over.

Most Arabs would agree with the Syrian president's assessment: relations, they believe, will have to mark time until the Israelis choose themselves a new leader.

Though he had thought his studies at the seminary would be simply a way to mark time until the war ended, "Torah grabbed me," Rabbi Plaut later said.

In this scheme, when we die, we go to a cosmic waiting room where we mark time until our name is never again mentioned.

Meanwhile, the best the conventional political imaginations can come up with is tired thinking about a roads-and-bridges compromise deal to mark time until … what?