Sentence examples for contemplated waiting from inspiring English sources

As Ms. Kaplan and her friends contemplated waiting for another shuttle, they became further agitated because the driver of the loaded van waited for another 15 minutes so that he could leave on the half hour.

Much like my pride, my pep talks weren't very helpful but neither was the cooing I received from the next bus stop I contemplated waiting at.

(How fitting that Cocteau, master of Surrealism, should locate the solution to the insoluble problem of being human in a flat copy of life, a representation for those who can still draw breath to contemplate while waiting to die themselves).

A man sits waiting, contemplating; another looks up at the night sky.

Several times -- usually after one of our bids was rejected -- we contemplated giving up and waiting for the market to cool down.

Some patients contemplating treatment had been waiting for the new drugs to be approved before starting.

Mr. Peca said he got a "couple of days off a month," so the home improvements he has contemplated will have to wait.

He is walking through the "violet air of Indian summer" as he contemplates his erotic future, waiting for his unit to be sent to Europe, and he brings a watercolor brightness to descriptions of Boston's easygoing and sometimes rather luxurious gay ­underworld.

Over two days they argue, get bored, clown around, repeat themselves, contemplate suicide, and wait.

Snowden, who made the kind of sacrifice most of us would find hard even to contemplate, must, alas, wait for his own form of absolution and just recognition.

You have nothing better to do than plan, wait, contemplate and obsess.