Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet BIDING

Definition av BIDING

1. böjningsform av bide
2. presensparticip av bide

Exempel på hur man kan använda BIDING i en mening

• Uncharismatic but tenacious, Ovando was biding his time, counting on the fact that he would be the logical choice to run for elections once Barrientos' term ended in 1970, perhaps with some electoral "help" from the outgoing administration.
• Despite these events, João Pequeno persevered these difficult years, biding his time to revive Pastinha's school.
• French officials who arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time.
• The clichés are there from the start, prompting the carefully representative choice of prisoners, and biding their time; but shortly after Wilson silences the prisoners' combined protest about Stevens' death, they come into their own to such an extent that the film takes an hysterical turn from which it never recovers.
• After biding his time and making Stewie worry about what could happen, Brian—while the Griffins are in London, leaving the Patriots-Sillinannies game—nonchalantly shoves Stewie in front of a moving bus.
• After biding their time for many years, the sons of Marcius gained their revenge by engineering the assassination of Tarquin, but they were again prevented from claiming the throne by a ruse of Tanaquil, the Roman queen, who installed her stepson, Servius Tullius, as regent, until he had sufficient support to rule on his own.
• On 4 June, Nauendorf helped to rout the French force at Battle of Zürich, commanding the Coalition's right wing; with sustained pressure on Andre Massena's force, Massena pulled his army across the Limmat river, and dug into positions on the low ring of hills there, biding his time until the propitious moment to retake the city, which he did in September, 1799, at the Second Battle of Zürich; Nauendorf was not present for this action, being with Archduke Charles on a march north, toward Mainz.
• Alice has departed the fiercely ambitious Martha, who has been biding her time for several years, launches a coup, designing and presenting a range of up-to-the-minute garments which are a huge success with the fashion media and bring clients flocking back to the salon.
• " Time Out said, "The first act is witty, but wordy and meandering, and for much of it, Riordan appears to be biding his time until he can feast on the meatier delights of the second," and Broadway World wrote, "It's to the great credit of the spirited company of actors, projection designers and French playwright Jules Romains himself, that the Mint Theater Company's new production of Donogoo always feels like something wildly funny is just about to happen.
• Corbin and Major Merrill protested that South Carolinians were merely biding their time until federal action quieted, that no lasting social change had yet been won, and that the murders and lawlessness would resume as soon as federal troops withdrew.

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