Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: awaits
IPA transcription: [əw'eɪts]
Usage examples
  • Comrade Rossiter awaits me.'
  • "He who followed us and spoke to us awaits us there; behold!"
  • Oh! Louise, don't spoil the splendid future which awaits us both!
  • Picture to yourselves what boundless fame and unlimited credit awaits our report to the outer world!
  • Thus supplied with the wherewithal to breathe, she awaits the coming of the game and keeps herself cool meanwhile.
  • "He is, and but now awaits the gathering of a cargo in my father's barracoons, to sail with them to the West Indies.
  • I am sorry that you cannot go with us, for if he goes high enough my death will be much easier than that which probably awaits you."
  • He has taken to drink, I believe--Beryl I mean--so some day he will die, and a nice fate awaits him where he will go," said Miss Berengaria, grimly.
  • Without springs or snares, she lies in ambush, among the flowers, and awaits the arrival of the quarry, which she kills by administering a scientific stab in the neck.
  • Then the pilgrim, still disguised, offers her his hand and heart and Cordelia confesses she loves the pilgrim and consents to marry him, notwithstanding the poverty that awaits her.