en attendant

British  

/ ɑ̃n atɑ̃dɑ̃ /

adverb

1. in the meantime; while waiting

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Example Sentences

We had only insisted upon your regularity at chapel and at lectures, and we hear of your attention to them comparatively, and we are fixed to be contented en attendant.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

My situation has, en attendant, been made picturesque by the successive arrivals of your different mementoes, each one of which has done its little part to assuage my solitude and relieve my gloom.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

Je désirerois vivement les y trouver; mais en attendant je souhaite avec ardeur avoir ici le plus promptement possible l'homme de loi, ou seulement en êtat de donner de bons conseils que je demande.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas

Let us have the expedients, the ameliorations, even the compromises, en attendant the millennium.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

You'll rest with me here then, but don't wait for that to rest somehow—somewhere en attendant.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry