Sentence examples for makes us wait from inspiring English sources

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The adverb "sometimes" makes us wait, and the conceit of the winds whistling of "joy or pain" makes us wait longer.

Gowdy cleverly makes us wait for the kidnapping we know is coming, forcing us to watch as Ron moves closer and closer, like a shark circling its prey.

The poem makes us wait, and makes us tremble on the brink of "the perils of accepting favours from strange children" – wittily though this is expressed.

The film-maker Robert Zemeckis makes us wait no more than a couple of minutes before inserting them into Disney's latest, hi-tech rendering of the classic seasonal parable.

In "Storm World," Mooney makes us wait until the end of the second appendix before revealing the "Thingamabobbercane" — an "oddball cyclone" that formed off the coast of Oregon last November.

But if we need to think we might be going somewhere better, Phillips makes us wait until the end to tell us where that better place might be and the meanings it might hold.

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"I remember bouncers who used to make us wait until everyone had gone in the club, until the last ten minutes and then we could go in.

After using him as the cliffhanger, the show made us wait to find out that nothing of consequence had really happened.

There's no friendliness … years ago they used to treat us differently through discrimination … they'd make us wait six or eight hours [for treatment] where the others would get in and out pretty quick … they judge you on your looks, your dress, and then how black you are".

Oh! Don't make us wait.

They made us wait for their performance.

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