Sentence examples for feet waiting from inspiring English sources

"I think Japan is dragging its feet waiting for A-bomb survivors to die," Mr. Kwak told reporters.

Yet passengers will feel not a whit of difference as they tap their feet waiting for overdue trains.

Our host had decked the place out with the tablecloth, a nice touch, but one that didn't quite mesh with the three stray dogs that sat patiently at our feet waiting for crumbs.

But Logan, the last Yankee to learn his roster fate, sat slumped at his locker in a T-shirt and jeans, packed bag at his feet, waiting for word and looking miserable.

The twins were no better than two barely tolerated dogs who sat at their feet, waiting for attention and the scraps of food that the Kennedys sometimes literally tossed into their mouths.

Could it be a case of getting itchy feet, waiting for four year-old Fring to – to use a well-worn British phrase – pull their finger out and get on with it?

"If you're standing on one foot, waiting and wishing, you're just not going to be in the House of Representatives," Mr. Israel says, putting the screws to his prospect like a salesman at an auto mall.

Investigators say that Mr. Goodman was drunk and speeding when he ran a stop sign, and then fled the scene of the accident on foot, waiting an hour to call 911.

Main road priority licenses main road traffic to plough on regardless of who was there first, including side road traffic and people on foot waiting to cross.

If you've made any payments with a chip card, you've probably had awkward moments — those long seconds after you've inserted the card and everyone behind you is (literally or metaphorically) tapping their foot, waiting for the card to be processed.

Without doubt a wife who's tapping her foot waiting for me to get home to give her some kind of purpose in life would be mortifying to me.