Sentence examples for wait by from inspiring English sources
The phrase "wait by" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when instructing someone to remain in a specific location near something or someone. Example: "Please wait by the entrance until I arrive."
Go out to Yorba Linda, wait by the headstone three or four years.
I wait by the wall, camera in hand, for someone to walk by.
For now all I can do is wait by the phone".
I wait by the window, my heart beating (I have a heart) with anticipation.
What was I thinking to want to wait?" By Labor Day, the romance had taken off.
Most could only watch and wait; by Election Day, they had already voted.
For weeks on end, Dylan Chidick would wait by his mailbox for the postal worker.
As for Mr. Potter, he said he would wait by the phone.
The others will have to sweat and stew and wait by their phones.
Young men wait by stacks of black inner tubes, ready to rent them out.
(Oh, just you wait. By September, we bet those suburban hounds will all be whining for jerseys).
