bide
Example Sentences
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Henry bides his time, watching other subjects closely before befriending Eleven.
From BBC
In the previously uncollected poems we find Heaney working out forms, responding to social occasions, sometimes fumbling or biding his time but always doing the digging with his pen.
The message to her is that if there isn’t anything good out there to buy, investors should just sit tight and be patient— such as bide time in T-bills.
From MarketWatch
I have a novel suggestion: If you’re going to splurge on a ski trip, bide your time for the best season—spring.
In accepting these terms, Hamas effectively acknowledges its defeat, even if it hopes to bide its time and live to fight another day.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
