Sentence examples for the excruciating wait from inspiring English sources

Baier dispatched five execution squads, thus keeping the "torture zone"–the excruciating wait to find out if you've been let go to a minimum.

Cain recalls vividly the excruciating wait for the school bell each morning, groups of friends huddled together, everyone else seemingly at ease and full of chatter.

Pochettino and his players had hoped that this would be the day when Leicester slipped but the excruciating wait goes on.

Rather, he was intrigued by a problem familiar to many Internet users and felt acutely by friends who were trading music online legally: the excruciating wait while files were being downloaded.

All the big moments are fully realised - and the excruciating wait for the shot which means an aged dog has been killed is made more agonising by the appearance of a real, appealing mutt.

And after 36 years of searching, doubt, and the excruciating wait for an answer, the countless prayers were answered.

The Grandman Triathlon, a fund-raiser for a local environmental group, embodies the excruciating waiting game that has afflicted coastal Alabama since oil began to leak from a well after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.

Axe The most excruciating wait to be put out of one's misery is when a beleaguered manager (or boss, for these purposes) faces the axe.

Following an excruciating wait, the League One visit of Southend United marks the end of the Oyston family's turbulent reign and an emotional return for the crowds.

The capital's long, excruciating wait for a new first couple ended today as Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, two borrowed and ballyhooed giant pandas from China, landed aboard Panda One and headed by police motorcade to the National Zoo, their new home.

It took a few days for new releases to make it to my local record store, Soundtracks on 7th Avenue in Park Slope, so I went in to Manhattan, but this meant an excruciating wait on the subway ride home.