Sentence examples for could only wait from inspiring English sources
You could only wait and hope not to die.
Abandoned, helpless, she could only wait for the end".
But those on electric trains could only wait and strategize: drive into Manhattan?
Now Hopper could only wait & see whether an audience would develop or whether the film would languish.
Clive Gillinson, the hall's executive and artistic director, said he could only wait to be informed by city officials.
But until the court in Washington ruled tonight, the people directly involved could only wait in a kind of tormented, suspended animation.
I could only look on, waiting for my precious 60-second turn with the other kid's playground gold.
"The defenseless earth could only lie waiting for its destruction," the narrator writes, echoing an earlier passage about the girl: "There was nothing she could do, no one to whom she could appeal.
From here on, mission controllers could only watch and wait.
