Sentence examples for waited against from inspiring English sources

He stood right still and waited against the light, his back was fixed, fixed on me like a preacher's eyeballs when he's yelling, "Are you saved?" He's the one.

Like trying to swallow the moon at 2p.m. in the afternoon, I waited against the odds.

7. Pull up a few upholstered living room chairs to a drop-leaf table waiting against a wall, and you have a dining room.

They taught me what Disclosure is and that, in order to get a good spot for Skrillex, I had to wait against a barricade through ten hours of deafening bass.

"We played hard, but if we would have come out like we did in the fourth quarter, the game might have been a little bit different, but we waited too long against a talented team".

While they waited, umbrellas leaning against legs, iPod ear buds dangling, morning papers adorning laps, some reflected on the change, expressing a range of opinions generally set to the tune of indifference.

For 65 days in 1969, Marcia Shelton watched, waited and hoped against all odds that her missing 12-year-old daughter would turn up safe and sound.

However significant proportions of patients were opposed to various aspects of the kidney allocation criteria, chiefly involving complex tradeoffs of antigen matching against time waited, whether dialysis had yet begun against time waited, and the use of age as a criterion.

"He didn't wait for Rock Against Racism to use music in the fight for equal rights.

Carlos Carvalhal knew Sheffield Wednesday had to play the waiting game against Charlton.

WELL before the start of Friday prayers, rolls of mats tied with string are waiting propped against the kerb.