Sentence examples for before the wait from inspiring English sources

The desperate last moments the night before: the wait before the long walk to the place of execution.

This matters because (as never before) the wait is likely to be long -- up to an hour.

Better let that lady with the suitcase full of x-ray-proof Christmas gifts pass through, before the wait gets too long and passengers start storming the body scanner.

Arriving for an early dinner seating ensures that you'll get a table and be served promptly, before the wait staff and kitchen get busy.

My sandwiches are packed the night before, the flask waiting to be filled with coffee the next morning.

This is the time before the waiting stops and he crosses over into what he's been waiting for.

At 4 30, an unsmiling Karzai finally appeared before the waiting cameras to endorse a Nov. 7 runoff.

You cannot park the Fourth Infantry Division in the desert for very long before the waiting erodes battle readiness and angers our hosts.

While the future may not look all that different so far, it's hard deny that change is on the way, so take Hemingway's fond words to heart, before the waiting list to get in becomes too long.

But, a few days before the waiting period ended, a group calling itself the Connecticut Coalition for Gaming Jobs filed an objection with the Interior Board of Indian Appeals, arguing that "a new casino in Southern New York will mean job losses and higher taxes for Connecticut".

Nonetheless, the mafioso power play of being seated before the waiting schnooks during the restaurant's first year was long forgotten by the seventh year, when a table was available for seventy-six of my closest friends and me.