Sentence examples for waiting for departure from inspiring English sources

While waiting for departure, the captain predicted the flight would take nearly six hours (it took just over two).

The train for Dresden waited for departure in the gray light of morning.

As I sat there for 45 minutes waiting for the departure, a crowd gathered, mostly of children.

Murray stood in their shadow, biding his time and waiting for their departure, so that he might be able to impress more of his own stamp on the movement once they had gone.

A second approach is a longer-term variation on the first, containing Russia wherever possible, maintaining or toughening sanctions, and waiting for the departure of Putin and what some economists say will be Russia's inevitable economic collapse as its oil and gas runs out and international ostracism, corruption and a declining working-age population take their toll.

After some uncertainty about his own situation, he learned in April that he would join them, but he is still waiting for a departure date, and his sisters won't leave without him.

Recently, before they were freed, 35 of the Americans related their experiences to a few journalists who were with them for 6 1/2 hours in a Beirut schoolyard, waiting for the departure that eventually came on Sunday.

The seven arrivals on a recent morning included Brazilians, Hondurans and a mother and daughter from El Salvador waiting for the 3.30pm departure.

The more than six-hour outage left thousands of customers scrambling to make their connecting flights and waiting for hours at departure gates to learn their flights' fate.

"What you want is something that never crashes, that's at least twice as fast as a plane, that's solar-powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time," Mr. Musk told Bloomberg while describing his vision of the Hyperloop  last year.

Reports from the Tennessee campus said nearly 1,000 students had gathered outside the school's football complex waiting for Kiffin's departure and fans held signs calling him a "traitor" and worse, while others burned Kiffin T-shirts.