wait upon
Example Sentences
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Ships are waiting two days to dock there while nearby Shekou is not accepting vessels until March 19, when the wait upon reopening is expected to be three days.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022
You still haven't answered my point: even in the UK, the mother of parliaments, do you really think the cabinet ministers wait upon parliament before taking any decisions?
From Economist • Aug. 3, 2012
“However grand their aspirations, they wait upon the will of people in power,” he writes.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2010
Soon the girl, who was given the name of Yang Kwei Fei, was dressed in robes of finest silk, and sent to wait upon the emperor where he took his tea among the flowering plums.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night she rang for service and I went to wait upon her.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
