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
  • But for now, the waiting game begins.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
  • But then the waiting game began.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • With the hearing complete, both sides now face a waiting game.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • 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 as the fury of their first week dies down, members are still playing a waiting game.
    — Raga Justin, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
  • There is some good news, though, for those readers who don’t like playing the waiting game.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • The Iran war seems to have devolved into a waiting game.
    — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The past year has turned into a waiting game for answers and closure.
    — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Once the move is finalized, the Browns will play the waiting game.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Here are four suggestions to live through the Fed’s waiting game.
    — Marilyn Cohen, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But the wait could be a year, and playing the waiting game could have dire consequences.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Others think the waiting game could be stretched a bit longer, however.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Sturgeon must, therefore, be prepared to play the waiting game.
    — Alasdair Lane, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • So when the waiting game was over, what was your reaction to the complete album?
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Every rocket launch begins with a waiting game.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • And the Fed will probably just keep playing the waiting game.
    — Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 13 May 2025
  • 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
  • The next several months of the pandemic became a waiting game in more ways than one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The track moves away from the dance floor of uncertainty and into the lustful waiting game.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Once the isotopes were prepared and the cyclotron was running, the process became a waiting game.
    — Max Springer, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
  • That got the Sun Devils to 21 over and set up a nervous waiting game.
    — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 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
  • Nobody understands the waiting game quite like Game of Thrones fans.
    — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 6 July 2022
  • Rodgers playing the waiting game could turn many more NFL teams off from waiting around.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • However, the waiting game is still ongoing, and Brolin still isn’t sure what’s what.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • But the waiting game remains a factor in terms of gaining a complete picture on where the Heat stand.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Until, of course, everything resets, and the waiting game begins again.
    — Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 21 Mar. 2026

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