Sentence examples for by waiting for something from inspiring English sources
Girls become "women" by waiting for something to happen to their bodies, something over which they (always) have absolutely zero control.
You would only be limiting yourself and your opportunities by waiting for something that would never happen.
They have dealt with continuing change, embarrassing behavioral episodes, outrageous ticket price increases and other miseries foisted on them by the Family Dolan while waiting for something good to happen, for the streamers to come down.
Squatters like her who a year ago settled into a row of riverside apartments once occupied by Hussein-era apparatchiks are waiting for something specific: whether their new government will try to throw them out as part of what may be sweeping changes to reorder the chaos of American military occupation.
Have you ever been really stressed out at the office with your phone ringing off the hook while you are simultaneously responding to seven emails and you have someone waiting for something standing by your desk and you thought, "Wow, I just had a brilliant insight and I'm going to reflect on that for a minute"?
Instead, the script by Katherine Craddock and Rod Browning wanders about aimlessly, keeping one waiting for something to happen, until the last several minutes.
"A lot of that first book was written sitting on the front steps waiting for something to come by — a spider, a lizard, a hawk, a mole.
The tension in the current game is leant less by the things that happen as the waiting for something to happen — the resolution, finally, of all the jousting in the corner.
He stuck his hand under a rock to try to snatch a death adder, which he explained beforehand is a particularly quick-striking, deadly snake that likes to hide under rocks waiting for something to come by that it can bite.
