Sentence examples for waiting to retrieve from inspiring English sources

He would fling passes past the contest officials waiting to retrieve them.

Come closing time, 4 A.M., cabs would be lined up for blocks waiting to retrieve the big-tipping besotted.

A few days later, you'd find yourself in line at the photo desk of your local pharmacy, waiting to retrieve your developed images with a sense of nervous anticipation.

Mr Haberkorn, 52, said he had just finished a New Year's Eve dinner with his wife, mother and four daughters and was waiting to retrieve a coat when Ms Cooke accosted them.

Writing in the introduction to her Collected Stories (1994), Paley recalls: "One dark day in our dark basement apartment, a father slumped in our fat chair, waiting to retrieve his two kids, my children's friends.

Mr. Hadow's satellite phone had gone dead days earlier, but on Monday he pulled out a special battery he kept charged and warm so he could call for the charter planes waiting to retrieve him.

Blocklong lines of spectators waited to retrieve tickets.

It took two hours before Con Edison could cut power to the manhole and the surrounding neighborhood, forcing rescuers to wait to retrieve Mr. Dillman.

In its first year of operation, according to the computer records, the average wait to retrieve a car was 2.5 minutes.

Scholars and writers protested that the renovation would result in long waits to retrieve the off-site books and diminish the library's role as a leading reference center.

Yet in his presence each lost gesture and intonation of Stolarsky's lined up on the front shelf of Bruno's awareness, waiting to be retrieved.