wait out
Example Sentences
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I had been driving west through downtown and stopped in Chinatown to wait out the morning congestion in a new café that used to be an old bistro.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
“We would prefer to wait out the near-term negatives.”
From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026
They migrate thousands of kilometres to find stable sea ice during Antarctic summer to wait out what is called a "catastrophic moult" every year.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
There are reasons to be concerned: No new retirees want to withdraw money from their accounts in a down market, and not everyone has additional funds to dip into while they wait out market turmoil.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
As he came by me, I grabbed his collar and said, “Hold on, boy! You can’t go in there. You’ll have to wait out here. We won’t be in there very long—I hope.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
