Sentence examples for in wait from inspiring English sources

"in wait" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a period of time during which you are expecting something to happen. For example, "We waited in wait for the bus to arrive."

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In "Wait!

They lie in wait.

Lying in wait.

Other hurdles lie in wait.

He lay in wait.

Aberdeen or Celtic will lie in wait.

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Penn Badgley is Olive's prince-in-waiting.

Captain-in-waiting Read is that special.

(Gideon Osborne, baronet-in-waiting? Hardly).

They are anachronisms-in-waiting.

Wimbledon's champion-in-waiting.

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