Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: waits
IPA transcription: [w'eɪts]
Usage examples
  • Within, what new life waits me!
  • My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously!
  • I go where glory or a modest competence waits me.
  • She had another of her waits, but she spoke clearly enough.
  • During some of these waits Mr. Edison had seen me play billiards.
  • Vengeance waits for her, slow and sure; but she must live, for you need her still.
  • There is many a fair land round these coasts, which waits for gallant men like you.
  • I had passed beyond the fixed stars and plunged into the huge blackness that waits beyond.
  • I beg the Duke's pardon, but I suffer the less because I know his Grace never waits for anybody."
  • The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.