Sentence examples for lay wait for from inspiring English sources

But there are also passages as violent as this: "And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush".

Nearby two more rolled-up paintings from the 1970s lay waiting for their own stretcher-bar debut.

"It started in the upper part of the spine and was moving down slowly while I lay waiting for the ambulance to arrive".

That might have been the dreadful fate that lay waiting for Doug and Deni, a quietly understated English couple, in Grand Designs.

A shriveled resurrection fern lay waiting for rain to revive it on a 20-foot-long limb of a Jamaica dogwood.

For days afterward, she lay waiting for help in a sea of broken bodies on the grounds of the General Hospital, where Dr. Ernest Benjamin, Mount Sinai's director of critical care, arrived with a medical team.

In the years following Poltava, Russia occupied all the Swedish annexations on the Baltic coast and even Finland; Hannover occupied Bremen and Verden; Denmark took Holstein-Gottorp; and Prussia lay waiting for the Swedish part of Pomerania.

I kept picturing Rosa in a camp like this one, stepping into a cage where a wiry little man like a human Chihuahua lay waiting for her, though I knew it was absurd.

This is where large, yet untapped, opportunities still lay waiting for entrepreneurs who can build simple solutions to overly complex problems.

A spread of beautiful fruits and veggies lay waiting for me.

Little did Scott know the twists, turns, and life's extraordinary ups and downs that lay waiting for him.