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How to use wait on in a sentence

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She had decided to wait on telling Fredi until the perfect moment, so she had to pretend as if nothing were wrong.
The only member of that group who will wait on tables next Sunday is Sean Carroll who has served at all of the 45 parties.
Cancer patients recovering in hospital will no longer have to wait on the postman for their get well soon cards.
One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below.
This ensures that anyone around you doesn't forget said fact and knows that it is their God given duty to wait on you hand and foot.
I was finally deposited in a small and remote village and told to wait on a pavilion under a palm-thatched roof.
It stands in that wistfully earnest doggy way that you see them doing as they wait on the footpath outside the fish and chip shop.
A new survey reveals that less than a quarter of people wait on the platform to wave their loved one farewell until the train has pulled out.
I was a petulant teenager with a terrible temper who assumed that my parents were only here to wait on me hand and foot.
Sons, on the other hand, are still being reared to expect women to wait on them hand and foot.
I'm an old woman, I can't be expected to wait on you hand and foot for the rest of my life.
Right from the start, the aging mother, Mag, is demanding, and expects her daughter to wait on her hand and foot.
When the latest batch of fresh-faced first years arrives, I shall wait on tenterhooks for their response to new, improved Toryism.
He might be a pipsqueak, but still, having a nine year old put his full wait on me isn't fun.
I think it is only a matter of time with Michael, but we can't wait on that.
It was hoped that he could be persuaded to wait on the committee in an advisory capacity.
In extreme forms of couvade, the man may mimic the pain and process of childbirth and expect his wife to wait on him in the following days.
There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.
Typically, ticks wait on vegetation and jump on your shoes, socks, or pants when you walk by.
Long-suffering servants were ordered about in French and wore perukes to wait on his guests.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We must wait on His word and on His providences while they examine us all this week.
It would have been his part to wait on the patriarch, but who was Plotinus?
Moreover I have to unpack the chest and wait on all of them with the public goods in my charge which keeps me busy all the time.
The man who was charged with the responsibility of getting that rubber cement mixed wait on a scouting tour.
In the afternoon, bellarmine, in the dear coach and six, came to wait on her.
But to overfeed a passage hawk before putting her up to wait on, is to court the loss of her.
But Hines, the new clerk, shuffled forward eagerly to wait on her.
They are come to tell me a Mr. grimes and his Lady are come to wait on us.
He got awful sick and was sick for ever so long in a indian camp and only an old micmac squaw to wait on him.
We wait on, hoping against hope, and at last, just as waiters and commissionaires are beginning to eye us with suspicion, we face the truth.
When he was gone, Lionel sat him down to dine, with Nick to wait on him.
There is every luxury that a horse could desire, including plenty of valets to wait on him.
Gorton has taken one of the rejected recruits to wait on him.
And all our after years, like menials, serve and wait on this, and according to their ability execute its will.
A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?
She sat still and let Tantripp put on her bonnet and shawl, a passivity which was unusual with her, for she liked to wait on herself.
Cecily and I are going to wait on the tables, and we'll put away a little of everything that's extra nice for our suppers.
That we may be more at our ease, La Ramee removes the guards, keeping only Grimaud to wait on us.
Then when you arrive at Plymouth or Southampton or whatever port you are bound for, wait on board, and I will meet you at the earliest hour possible.
Fetch water, and wash dishes, and rub knives, and wait on folks.
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