How to Use waiting game in a Sentence

waiting game

noun

• Until they make their decision, we're just playing a waiting game.
• 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
• She was hired in June of 2019, but her head-coaching career mostly has been a waiting game.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2020
• Others think the waiting game could be stretched a bit longer, however.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024