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Example sentences for "without waiting"

  • I'm sorry you gave him an answer, Shirley, without waiting to talk it over with me.

  • He stood alertly waiting for the car and sprang into the front seat without waiting for it to stop, or even glancing back at her, and the car shot forward again with great leaps.

  • Without waiting to be attacked, General Gates threw out 5000 men to attempt turning the right of the British forces, and to attack General Burgoyne in his rear.

  • Without waiting to be attacked Beaulieu descended from the heights, and met the advanced guard of the French at Voltri, near Genoa, which he repulsed.

  • Without waiting an unnecessary second, Herbert flung out the shell of the cartridge and placed a new one in the breech.

  • And, without waiting to discuss the question, he struck to the left with his strong step, the others following the courses already mentioned.

  • Nick Ribsam thought it very singular, but he thought it very alarming as well, and, without waiting to watch matters further, he turned on his heel and ran with might and main for the fallen tree.

  • I was never formal with Max, so I knocked at the door, and, without waiting to hear his voice in reply, marched in without ceremony.

  • He was in his working dress, having, as he said, 'come straight to me, without waiting to clean himself.

  • And then, without waiting for an answer, I left the room.

  • And so Jill chattered on without waiting for my answers, talking in the very fulness of her young heart, until I pretended again to be asleep, and then she consented to be quiet.

  • Without waiting to be answered, she led the way back into the room.

  • The man reported the result of his errand, without waiting to be asked.

  • She returned again to the writing-table, without waiting to be answered.

  • Without waiting for a reply Tom Trefethen hurried from the train, which was just coming to a stop at the bustling Red Jacket station, and disappeared in the crowd of spectators who had gathered to witness its arrival.

  • Without waiting to regain his feet, he flung several of these at the animals that had discovered and were devouring his hardtack.

  • Then together we rode through into the avenue with our stolen mounts and, without waiting to close the gates, hurried off toward the southern boundary of the city.

  • And so without waiting to be again discovered and thwarted, I ran quickly up the short, steep incline and pushed open the doorway at its end.

  • Without waiting to note the outcome of his plea, he turned and bounded toward me.

  • Soon I found myself at the door of a tall, gabled house, where, without waiting, my guide left me.

  • Without waiting to hear the conditions, Crocker lurched forward and fell heavily to the ground in a dead faint.

  • Without waiting to hear further, for complaints of arrears of payment were a common occurrence, Maurice and I stole away and wandered towards the slip where the Royal Oak was nearing completion.

  • Without waiting for an answer from either, the young man threw himself down the grassy steps of the bastion, and moving rapidly across the parade, he was quickly in the presence of their father.

  • And so, without waiting for a reply, he continued to write.

  • And then, without waiting to hear more, she shuffled back along the passage, and left us once more alone.

  • At this moment someone knocked at the door gently, but hastily, and opened it without waiting for an answer.

  • I need not have asked," he said, without waiting for a reply.

  • Without waiting a moment, he turned upon his heel, and went back into his house, and through the hall to the library.

  • Without waiting to be spoken to, Pranken gave him a considerable sum of money, and after the beggar had gone away, he called him back and gave him as much again.

  • Without waiting to finish their wine, the Major and Knopf hurried to the Villa.

  • He had left St. Thomas in a great hurry, upon getting news of the Sumter, without waiting to coal.

  • The tone and countenance of Ulysses were so awful, and his sword gleamed so brightly, and seemed to have so intolerably keen an edge, that Circe was almost killed by the mere fright, without waiting for a blow.

  • On reaching the river's brink, he plunged headlong in, without waiting so much as to pull off his shoes.

  • The other man saw that he had stepped on a corn, and added hastily, without waiting for a reply: "Because if you are not, you might spend it with us.

  • Without waiting for a reply, he took it from her and began to examine it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "without waiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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