Sentence examples for ground and wait from inspiring English sources

The females watch from the ground and wait for a male to flash.

Stefanus said he told Yanggam that the consulate staff member was probably bluffing and that they should stand their ground and wait for an order from Canberra.

"Are they going to dig in and be guerrillas or go to ground and wait?" said Michael R. Shurkin, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst who is now at the RAND Corporation.

Late that year, as defenses began to concentrate more on limiting their leads, the Yankees stopped running and tended to hold their ground and wait for a big hit.

America's Department of Energy plans to use the process to dispose of radioactive powder in Idaho left over from the extraction, decades ago, of uranium from spent fuel.Future scientists will design even better materials and processes, which has led some to suggest that the best thing to do with nuclear-waste materials is simply to store them above ground and wait for technology to improve.

One ordered her to sit on the ground and wait while he decided whether she could pass.

Then she turned, planting her hands on the ground, and waited.

The road out was swamped, so they drove two hundred yards to marginally higher ground and waited.

Finding no daylight ahead, he remained tucked in snugly at the back of the pack, saving ground and waiting patiently until the path to the outside was clear.

"The days of sticking a hose pipe in the ground and waiting for oil to spurt up are over," says Leo Koot of Taqa, Abu Dhabi's national firm, which bought several assets from Shell and Exxon in 2008.

While Florida State's Xavier Beitia lined up for a 43-yard field goal that could have won the game on the final play, Dorsey cast his eyes to the ground and waited for a record Orange Bowl crowd of 81,927 to tell him where the ball flew.