wait on

Example Sentences

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“Copy, yeah, we prefer to wait on a gate, but I mean, again, we only got so much time here because there's still a bit of an odor in the back of the airplane.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

He faced an agonizing 20-minute wait on the 18th fairway as Jacob Bridgeman, in the preceding group, played a shot from the beach that cracked off a cliff and back into the ocean.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

We cannot just wait on anyone, especially not celebrities, to change institutions without some people power to back them up.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

After more than six and a half hours at the crease, he later left the field holding his lower back, and England face an anxious wait on his condition.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

I walk over to the G train so I can hop on the L back into my part of Brooklyn, and I scroll through Instagram on my phone while I wait on the platform.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi