Sentence examples for age waiting from inspiring English sources

Most were not frail pensioners but "chaps about your age, waiting to be called up".

Handsome but long-abandoned railway viaducts can be glimpsed among the trees – magnificent ruins from Britain's greatest age, waiting for the modern traveller to remember Ozymandias and the impermanence of all regimes.

I then walked four blocks along Main Street, past the stores and shoppers of this big, grimy factory city, until I came to the Globe and a long line of rowdy kids my age waiting to get inside.

After three days of speculation, complete with fat-man-won't-sing tabloid headlines and a replacement half his age waiting in the wings after being flown in on the Concorde, Luciano Pavarotti backed out of his scheduled appearance in "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera last night, less than an hour before curtain time.

Similarly, Aeson regards being suddenly yanked back to youth as unnatural, and the notion of living life again as a kind of punishment: More chance of sadness; more chance of loss; / another trudge into old age, waiting / for my sight to fail, my hearing to fail, my body to weaken … / I had lived my life.

Eventually they gain access to the mother lode – the chamber that stores the complete knowledge from humanity's first age, waiting to be decoded.

As other hopefuls his age waited tables, Mr. Campbell was tapped by Cameron Macintosh for a big spot in a royal gala.

Freshmen (guys my own age) waited on us, bringing us drinks with a stiff "Yes, sir," and "For the lady".

That she or anyone else her age, waited until they were truly ready?

We spend ages waiting for Christine to catch up with us.

They will sit round it for ages, waiting for it to light and for the flames to die down so we can cook".