Sentence examples for be waited from inspiring English sources

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be 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 (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

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So people here like to be waited on.

It's always so nice to be waited for".

For adults, pain is usually a passing sensation, to be waited out or medicated away.

"It's not a thing to be waited for, it's something to be achieved".

Quite an impressive stereotype and most convenient for men who want to be waited on hand and foot.

They were to be waited upon by scores of doll-sized wooden eunuchs, whose pale faces and downcast eyes remind a modern viewer of zombies.

Other than Paris Hilton's pad or the queen's Balmoral Castle, where can you be waited on hand-and-foot in marble-floored rooms adorned with Picassos?

Or penetrate further, to one of the tables (a rare amenity in ramen shops) to be waited on with brisk, warm authority.

Go to any restaurant or retail establishment in London these days, and odds are you will be waited on by some nice young person from Eastern Europe.

There was an unexpected piquancy; Shitter had arranged for us to be waited on by some "bloody nuisances recently overruled and declared fit to work" in bondage gear.

Nix on that choice: the idea is to be waited on, and for none of us to have to wash the sheets and towels.

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