Sentence examples for centuries waiting from inspiring English sources

Soldiers still get information the same way they have for centuries: waiting for someone with a better view to tell them what's going on.

I had always — as many Americans tend to do — conceived of Africa as a whole, romanticizing the continent as one heart that beats across centuries waiting for the return of its diaspora in Latin America, the return of 150 million black souls.

The celebrities, the first European bison about to set their hooves in this remote Romanian valley in the southern Carpathian mountains for two centuries, wait in the shadows of a huge trailer.

And the new Henry Day, who turns out to be a musical prodigy, spent a century waiting to become human.

The man's posture is so straight that for all you know he could have been standing here for a century, waiting for someone to recognize that he knows something no one else knows.

You will have a new appreciation of those motes swirling in the projector beam, which have been haunting movie theaters for more than a century, waiting for their turn on screen.

He spends over a century waiting to reunite with the Doctor, over which time he becomes Torchwood's leader.

Jack explains he returned from Satellite 5 to the present day by traveling to 1869 via vortex manipulator, and lived through the 20th century waiting for the Doctor.

Each year chefs sit in the great room at London's Guildhall, which dates from the 12th century, waiting to hear the name of their restaurant called out.

In fact, it's usually the opposite: truly groundbreaking monuments tend to be reviled by contemporary society and critics alike before enduring the half-century waiting period in order to become beloved landmarks.

And then there's the inept and stubborn auto industry, that refused to have a business plan for the 21st century, waiting at the back door of Treasury in their gas guzzling SUVs for whatever is left after the orgy of stealing.