The phrase "awaiting dinner" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The family sat around the dinner table, eagerly awaiting dinner to be served.
You have worked hard -- raising children, maybe working outside the home, arriving home to laundry awaiting, dinner to be made, dishes to be washed, bills to pay, emails to answer and homework to tend to -- only to pass out when it's done, without any time for yourself.
Interviewed in the apartment — where Enrique, now in high school, and Lucas, a kindergartener, awaited dinner — Ms. Ramos said she wanted all the details of her story publicly disclosed so that others might learn what she belatedly did: that "there's help out there, and you don't have to sell your body" to survive.
You can still enjoy the food but you'll bypass the temptation to devour endless mini mushroom and spinach quiches as you await dinner.
Calm, focused, a lion awaiting his dinner, a sexual gladiator sensing the crowd's bloodlust.
While we were awaiting the dinner, which was to… Reprinted excerpt from a PROFILE which ran: November 9 , 1957
While we were awaiting the dinner, which was to be served to us in the room, he supplied me with a large vodka on the rocks and poured himself the merest courtesy sip.
As someone who eagerly awaits her dinner invitation each and every day—I'm sure it's coming soon!—I could not be more relieved that the assembled Washington, D.C. press elites will not have to listen to C.K.'s unflinching honesty and blistering wit, but will instead probably enjoy passed apps while taking in the comic stylings of the Capitol Steps or, more likely, Billy Crystal.
After Timo Perez's game-winning ninth-inning home run Saturday night, a relieved Bobby Valentine sat behind his desk, a steak dinner awaiting him.
They did so while awaiting the arrival of dinner guests: their new friends, the bosses of Fiat Auto.GM's bosses had come to Italy to hold a strategy review and to parade their new connection with Fiat Auto: in the spring they signed a deal under which GM is to take a 20% stake in the Italian firm and Fiat's biggest shareholders will take a 6% stake in the world's biggest car maker.
His thoughts and fears pour forth as you sit at the dinner table awaiting his date that's never going to show, instead mulling over the anxieties that are eating away at his mind.
A cold seafood dinner awaits them, followed by a cruise on the waters of the property.
