Sentence examples for lost waiting from inspiring English sources

time was lost waiting for aircraft. . . .

He's a Clinton-era free spirit: feckless, a bit lost, waiting to see what kind of luck or love comes his way, but never doubting that something will.

The lost golf ball, in its own way, has become a fatalistic metaphor not just for golf, but perhaps life: we are all lost, waiting to be found.

Still, he said, the deal was so good — at roughly the same cost as he paid to fly back in coach on US Airways — without connections, security hassles and time lost waiting around at the airport, that he hopes to snap up similar bargains in the future.

These include all manner of costs, from the time lost waiting in line at airports to pass through metal detectors, to the difference between actual property values in violent neighborhoods and what those values would be if there was no gun violence.

"People talk about how much scientific time is lost waiting for papers to come out.

The rest of the world, listening to the AI system that tells them hope is lost, waits to die like sheep — until a stirring speech by a Chinese schoolgirl unites the nations in hope.

The tribe still did not know how much money it would lose, waiting on word from Washington, he said, but the number would be in the millions.

Years later, Winter writes: When I think of the Great Depression, I picture a whole country of people tough as Grandpa and Granny Winter, not giving up, even when it seemed like there was nothing left to lose — waiting out a storm that seemed like it would never end and then finally waking to the blue skies of better days.

LAW #2: You snooze, you lose Waiting until the eleventh hour to raise the issue of a prenup or to discuss its terms is a recipe for disaster.

Let whoever needs to eat a gluten-free food do it and those who want to lose wait and refrain from gluten do it, too.