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Example sentences for "while waiting"

  • While waiting, Paul and his companion left the station to procure some tobacco.

  • While waiting in Cape Town very much perplexed as to how they would get up, Paul made the acquaintance of an agent of Cobb & Co.

  • The collection was boxed ready for shipment and Paul had a pleasant time on the island, while waiting for a northern bound vessel.

  • There he learned that Smith, while waiting for a few of his men who had been ice-bound in the Ohio River, instead of getting off on the 1st as expected, had not left until the 11th.

  • While waiting in the tap-room for my dinner, I recognized Nelly's laugh and went into the private dining room to see her, hoping that she might drop a word concerning another person.

  • With all her profound respect for the high rank of her lady guests, Betty's smiles, while waiting on handsome George, were of a far rarer quality than those given to rank and station in the small dining room.

  • While waiting, two men wrapped to their eyes in greatcoats came up, one on either side of the coach, entered, threw a cloak over her head, and bound her hand and foot.

  • While waiting half an hour for a warm breakfast we learned we were in Greenbrier county, and within three miles of the Greenbrier River.

  • While waiting, after the anxiety and excitement of the moment had somewhat subsided, we found the weather quite cold.

  • Were viewed by many people, mostly colored, while waiting.

  • My brother accompanied me, and, while waiting in the ante-room of the telegraph office, I had a long and quite an agreeable chat with General Anson Stager, who had charge of all the military telegraph.

  • While waiting there, the old sergeant, who seemed to be very much incensed at my cheekiness, in running by his sentries, plied us with questions.

  • While waiting at Annapolis for the minister they had a visit from the President, James Madison.

  • While waiting to be exchanged he attended a school in Chester, Pennsylvania.

  • While waiting in Boston for these ships to be finished, Paul Jones wrote many wise suggestions about the management of the navy.

  • While waiting at St. Joseph, Missouri, for the train, I obtained rations for the company.

  • While waiting for a certain canal-boat, the owner and captain being friendly to our work, another young man joined us.

  • While waiting in this lonely and solitary nook, three large bloodhounds came in sight.

  • While waiting, a terrific squall of wind and dust comes howling from the direction we are going, and while it is still blowing great guns, the Vali and his mounted escort arrive.

  • While waiting for my change, I was to price a piece of costly jewelry, and while talking about the merits of the diamond, hit my man on the head with the black jack.

  • While waiting a chance to escape Sammy used to sally forth from his hiding-place and steal something good from McBlank's box.

  • As before, I consoled myself, while waiting a chance to escape, with some of my favorite authors; but my eye-sight was getting bad and I could not read as much as I used to.

  • While waiting I went over to the kampong to kinematograph two dancing girls who the day before, owing to their bashfulness, had detained us so long that the light became inadequate.

  • It was my intention, while waiting here a few days for the steamer, to visit a locality farther down the river which is marked on the map as having Hindu antiquities.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while waiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cold sweat; common government; for they are foolishness unto him; hard rock; jest about; little attention; narrow strip; pointed stick; scarcely able; this stage; western extremity; while above; while ago; while another; while boiling; while even; while longer; while looking; while many; while some; while standing; while there; while warm; while you; women should; young sirs