A cousin to the watched-pot wait is the forced wait.

According to London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the \standing \side.

After all, forced waiting requires patience.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

Because of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.

But we have to wait in line to pay for these things we need.

During these waits, the brain slips away from the body and wanders about until the water runs over the edge of the counter and onto your socks.

Good idea! Could you make sure the taxi will be waiting for me outside at 8: 00 p.m.?

Great! I can't wait to show them around our new house.

He's still waiting for a flight out of New York.

I can't wait! there's so much to see and do and eat! Paris has some of the most wonderful cheeses in the world.

I could hardly wait to meet him.

I could hardly wait to try this adventure again.

I got here a few days ago, on Saturday...oh, no, wait a minute...sorry, Friday, not Saturday.

I hurried directly to my backyard, where an apple tree patiently waited for me.

I read somewhere that we spend a full third of our lives waiting.

I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a habit.

If the self-centred guest arrives late, the nine others at the table set for ten will have to wait.

I'll wait for you at the office.

I'm waiting for the train to central station.

Into the complete silence of the waiting class came the teacher's sweet voice, \Good morning, children.\

It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

It is more fruitful than the forced wait.

Marian Bechtel sits at west palm beach's bar louie counter by herself, quietly reading her e-book as she waits for her salad.

Nature seems to unfold to people who watch and wait.

Now Alia waited for the war to end and dreamed of peace and a new library.

Obediently, my class lay their heads on their desks, closed their eyes and waited.

Oh, wait a minute! I made a mistake.

On march 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn't know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

On the surface it seems as ridiculous as following the directions on soup mixes, but the lucky-break wait well serves those who are willing to do it.

One day, while waiting to go in for treatment, I had one of dr.

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about being late for school.

Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the lucky-break wait.

Properly preparing packaged noodle soup requires a forced wait.

Science projects waited until the last moment.

She couldn't wait to tear the newspaper apart.

She'd look at me with those sad brown eyes of hers, beam her need, and then wait, trusting I would understand — which, strangely, I almost always did.

She'd watch me coming down her street, and by the time I'd biked up to her doorstep, there'd be a cold drink waiting.

Such activities fill the spaces that used to be dead time such as waiting for somebody to arrive for a lunch meeting.

The author supports his view by analyzing different categories of \waits\.

The donor can only wait for that long.

The forced wait makes people passive.

The forced wait requires some self-control.

The girls on the wesleyan academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm, eighth-grader Taylor bisbee shivered a little as she watched her teammate Paris white play.

The letter ended with a personal request: \Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done.\

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

The rest of us have to evade them or just stand still to wait for the unavoidable collision.

The very purest form of waiting is the watched-pot wait.

The watched-pot wait engages body and brain.

There were many people waiting at the bus stop, and some of them looked very anxious and disappointed.

They waited to see what the rest of the class would do.

This kind of wait makes the waiter helpless and mindless.

This type of wait is unusual in that it is for the most part voluntary.

Turning one's life into a waiting game requires faith and hope, and is strictly for the optimists among us.

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

We certainly do spend a good deal of our time waiting.

We have been waiting here for more than two hours.

When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away.

While doing a watched-pot wait, we tend to get absent-minded.

Yet the bad news is students have been made to wait outside before school.

You are waiting at a wrong place.

You go ahead, and I'll catch up on some sports news while waiting.

Your friend can wait outside for the discussion.

The woman is waiting for a call.

What is the woman waiting for?

This is not the first time we've had to wait for her.

He is irritated at having to wait for Jane

Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move.

I did all the cooking myself and my wife waited on tables.

Well, I'm afraid we must wait until all the applications are in, in writing, and we'll then decide on the short list.

We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside.

It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop

I wrote to about six hotels and one of them gave me my first job, so I didn't have to wait too long.

Ask the name of the person waiting on you.

Fantastic! I'll just wait in the lobby.

Happy golden birthday! I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back.

I can't wait, and if Tom goes, we could go sailing.

I do want to get married, but she thinks we need to wait until we've launched our careers.

Oh, wait, it's your girlfriend, isn't it?

so, I'm really enjoying it and I can' t wait for my next session, although the lessons are rather expensive.

There are people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be.

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration ( ' , FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

One needs the designers, and perhaps the regulators, before the builders and operators, and each group of workers in training has to know there is work waiting beyond graduation.

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.

She's excited because, as she puts it, \I don't have to wait [until] 15 years from now\ to make sense of the world

Waiting for someone at the airport

The other people would e-mail and wait up to two weeks for an answer.

She will wait for the man at the south gate

The man has to wait to get his medicine.

I hope you are not to put out with me for the delay ,I had to stop for the Fred's home to pick up a book on my way here M : well , that's not a big deal ,but you might at least phone if you know you will keep someone waiting Q : what do we learn about the women

M : sorry to have kept you waiting ,Madam , I've located your luggage, it was left behind in Paris and won't arrive until later this evening W : oh ,I can't believe this ,have it been to delivered to my hotel then ,I guess Q :what happened to the woman's luggage

She often keeps other people waiting.

I can't wait to see them, I'm wondering if the shots I took are as good as I thought.

Most seeds can wait out the dry, unwelcoming seasons until conditions are right and they sprout.

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration FA and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance.

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker's allowance.

We don't have time to wait.

We will have to wait and see exactly how these hard times will reshape our social fabric.