Sentence examples for literally waiting from inspiring English sources

You had the feeling they were literally waiting for the bell to ring.

But these days, Robson Madzumbara spends a lot of time quite literally waiting around for change.

"They're literally waiting on the sidelines to see what happens," he said.

He's literally waiting to be imprisoned with his bag prepared, even though he didn't do anything wrong.

Most people he sees are busy all day – unlike in the village where people work in the gardens very early in the morning and then spend the day literally waiting for nightfall.

She refers to the masses of homeless middle class people now living in camps around the US, all sitting in front of their neat little tents, properly shaved and nicely dressed, ready to take a new job – "literally waiting for the system to take them back in".

We literally waited for the other shoe to drop".

Currently, researchers must either literally wait around for lightning to strike, or else they can try to trigger it with rockets that work by trailing copper wires from the sky, thus "earthing" the clouds they are fired into.

"You literally wait all year for one night in the rain," said Mike Anderson, a sanctuary director in Bernardsville for the New Jersey Audubon Society, which has been working with the state and the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey to monitor the amphibians' road crossings, and find ways to improve their odds.

I used to literally wait until the last minute to purchase a Christmas tree.

While an outside reporter covering the Times may not get calls returned, the public editor, who serves for a fixed term and reports directly to the publisher, can literally wait outside a Times editor's office.