Sentence examples for waits up from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of wait up
Long lines, and waits up to three hours, in the states that allow early voting have emphasized the intensity of voter feeling.
It's by far the busiest Starbucks I've ever been in, with waits up to twenty minutes long, but I'm such a regular that the baristas frequently make my coffee before I'm even in line: decaf quad espresso ($3.21).
Julian, the protagonist of "The Private Lives of Trees," described as "a professor, and a writer on Sundays," waits up one evening for his wife, Veronica, to return home.
The Atlanta, Denver, Des Moines, Fort Lauderdale, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Seattle-Tacoma airports, among others, have sometimes seen very long waits, up to an hour and a half at Hartsfield-Atlanta, for example.
Long used as a vaccine for smallpox, vaccinia patiently waits up to 72 hours before busting out.
When a retailer places an order and faces inventory shortage in the warehouse, she/he waits up until product availability (backordering).
Valerie James waited up for O'Neill.
"They're probably all waiting up".
"You were waiting up for her.
There's nobody to wait up for.
