Sentence examples for are waited from inspiring English sources

The phrase "are waited" is not correct in standard written English
The correct form would typically be "are waiting" or "are awaited" depending on the intended meaning. Example: "The guests are waited on by the staff throughout the evening."

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are waited

verb

To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

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The 500-seat venue, where guests are waited on at tables, was close to full, with most ticket holders the wrong side of 40.

They are waited upon and cared for by hundreds of grooms, hot walkers, exercise riders, veterinarians, night watchmen, assistant trainers, trainers, jockeys and owners.

So what would Keynes make of a world in which lavishly paid investment bankers work from dawn to dusk and then decamp at the weekend to country-house hotels where they are waited on hand and foot by a new servant class paid little more than subsistence wages?

There's no way to pay for this necessary work other than to sell tables for a dinner in the grand ballroom, and invite members of the media world, who arrive in tuxedos and evening dresses, and are waited on as they eat and drink and listen (or not) to introductory speeches by media luminaries.

"Far too many children are waited on at home hand and foot.

Nanotechnology is an area where fundamental or applicative research is still in progress and where many industrial applications are waited to come.

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The couple are waiting.

We are waiting.

The rest are waiting.

Buses are waiting.

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