waiting
noun
a period of waiting; pause, interval, or delay.
waitingly
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a word derived from
waiting.
Example Sentences
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At the sound of the carriage the landlord hurried out, and stood beside Derrick, waitingly.
From The Woman's Way by Charles Garvice
The Marrow minister leaned his head on his hand and looked waitingly at the young man.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The Saints, those darling sons of the house, with their dreams and meditations make but little stir; they look forward waitingly, as men assured of their part in Elysium.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
Was he justified in taking this comely young fellow into the grim uncertainty that lay ahead, into the jaws of the specter grinning waitingly behind the red lights of Bart Coogan's gambling hell at Gunnison?
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
Drake looked at her as he never thought that he could have looked at her—calmly, waitingly.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice
