How to Use waiting game in a Sentence
waiting game
noun- Until they make their decision, we're just playing a waiting game.
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The baseball games are off for now, and the waiting game is on.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021 -
Once the move is finalized, the Browns will play the waiting game.
— Dan Labbe, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2021 -
The last few months have been a waiting game for Empey.
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022 -
Look is hopeful the waiting game will soon come to an end.
— Jo Constantz, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023 -
Much of 2021 has been a waiting game for the party in power.
— Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 28 May 2021 -
Look for Ugás to play a waiting game behind a long jab.
— Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2021 -
That got the Sun Devils to 21 over and set up a nervous waiting game.
— Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2021 -
All the while, Trump raises money off the waiting game.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023 -
The Griffiths are far from alone in playing a waiting game.
— Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021 -
It’s now a waiting game to see when the eight-time Tour winner will return.
— Riley Hamel and Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022 -
But the wait could be a year, and playing the waiting game could have dire consequences.
— Julie Jargon, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2021 -
But for those chased out of their homes by flames, the waiting game continues.
— Ruben Vives Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021 -
But, mostly, No. 27 is a waiting game even for the league’s wisest guys.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2022 -
But as the fury of their first week dies down, members are still playing a waiting game.
— Raga Justin, Dallas News, 23 July 2021 -
The 2020 season has been nothing but a waiting game so far for Luis Urías.
— Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2020 -
Here are four suggestions to live through the Fed’s waiting game.
— Marilyn Cohen, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 -
With the hearing complete, both sides now face a waiting game.
— Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 21 July 2023 -
What the Heat can’t afford is to get caught in a waiting game while the rest of free agency plays out elsewhere around the league.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 25 July 2021 -
Expect second-tier free agents to play the waiting game.
— Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2021 -
Each lingered on the open market for more than a week, and for Rhodes at least, playing the waiting game wasn’t easy.
— Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2021 -
The waiting game is nothing new for the cannabis industry.
— Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Oct. 2021 -
The past year has turned into a waiting game for answers and closure.
— Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2021 -
No electricity means nights are reduced to a waiting game in the dark for when the next strike will come.
— Hana Salah, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021 -
So when the waiting game was over, what was your reaction to the complete album?
— Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022 -
The track moves away from the dance floor of uncertainty and into the lustful waiting game.
— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022 -
His wife, Sadie, spoke to The Tribune about the last two months of hospitalizations and a waiting game.
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022 -
While the time between commitments wasn’t as extreme, the same waiting game was played in 2022.
— Stephen Means, cleveland, 10 July 2022 -
All that uncertainty’s left Aspinall, who claimed the interim belt at UFC 295, playing the waiting game.
— Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024 -
The next few months will be a waiting game for him, as schools like his compile financial aid offers expected to arrive much later than in prior years.
— Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
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