bide

Example Sentences

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I dared not tease her because she’d only tease me back about Kekeli, but I smiled to myself and bided my time.

From Literature

She said the lieutenant governor’s role is typically a sleepy perch for politicians as they bide their time to run for higher office.

From Los Angeles Times

Or, maybe, investors are just biding their time ahead of some real news later this week.

From Barron's

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.

From The Wall Street Journal