Sentence examples of "wait around for" in English
After breaking up with his girlfriend he moped around the house for a whole month.
Après avoir rompu avec sa copine, il traîna en broyant du noir autour de la maison pendant tout un mois.
The entire sales staff has worked around the clock for a week.
Tout le personnel commercial a travaillé d'arrache-pied durant une semaine.
Being "really busy" does not mean running around and acting like you don't have time for anyone or anything.
Être « très occupé » ne veut ni dire que l'on court partout ni que l'on agit comme si l'on avait le temps pour personne ou quoi que ce soit.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches, in numbers this nation has never seen. By people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
C'est la réponse apportée par les files qui s'allongeaient autour des écoles et des églises, en nombre que cette nation n'avait jamais vu. Par des gens qui ont attendu trois ou même quatre heures, beaucoup pour la première fois de leur vie, parce qu'ils croyaient que cette fois doit être différente, que leurs voix pouvaient être cette différence.
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