How To Use lying in wait In A Sentence
- Bright-eyed, Johannes quickly gathered a sackful of colours and brushes, and a large rolled drawing which had been lying in wait. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- Police believe he could have been lying in wait for his victim for some considerable time.
- The robbers were lying in wait for the rich traveler.
- As his fame grows and his popularity spreads, there are many traps lying in wait for him.
- Armed officers, who were lying in wait for the would-be raiders, disabled their van using Hatton rounds - bullets designed to deflate tyres with minimum damage.
- Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus. Isabelle
- Finding little to eat in the bleak, snow-drifted woods, it soon began to depredate on the moose, and killed two or three, generally by lying in wait and dashing out on them as they passed near its lurking-place. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
- A mother who claims she was forced to pay £155 after her car was clamped on a petrol station forecourt has accused the clampers of lying in wait.
- Like tangling with an alligator, or lifting the toilet seat lid and finding a funnel-web spider lying in wait. I know i am, but what are you?
- He was lying in wait in the hallway, where he was impossible to overlook, forking salad into his well-shaped mouth.
