How to Use lie in wait in a Sentence

lie in wait

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• And new perils lie in wait that could escalate or prolong the outbreak.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• Of the many ways to discover the wonders that lie in wait, one of the best might be by bicycle.
  — Outside Online, 8 June 2022
• The structure contains small holes where the ants lie in wait, invisible.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The Clippers are a handful and their time is now, but the Mavericks lie in wait.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
• Those eager to see what breakthroughs lie in wait for the Webb mission will require some patience.
  — NBC News, 8 Jan. 2022
• But don't place the feeder under strong branches that can be used by cats who may lie in wait for unsuspecting birds.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2021
• Keep your birdbath away from fences or shrubbery, where a neighborhood cat or other predators can lie in wait and pounce.
  — Amy Wilkinson, SELF, 14 June 2024
• The robot can go to a location and lie in wait for an extended period.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• The park's tree-climbing lions often lie in wait on the branches of sycamores, while leopards skulk in the tall grasses.
  — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2021
• Not being able to lie in wait for your helper to enter the cell poses an important challenge to a satellite phage.
  — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• These vaccines also induce production of B-cells and helper T-cells, which lie in wait.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• Senegal, the most complete team Africa has sent to a tournament for more than a decade, may lie in wait in the last 16.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The cartels, experts in violence, exploitation and evading the law, lie in wait.
  — Onkar Ghate, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2024
• What kinds of devious new products lie in wait now that Big Tech is convinced of its omniscience?
  — Firmin Debrabander, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
• Other infantry teams lie in wait with surface-to-air missiles to take down Russian helicopters.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• This works well for the ambush predator, which lie in wait until their prey—often fish or crustaceans—come within striking distance.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2020
• Belgian Malinois guard dogs lie in wait for anyone who manages to jump the property’s massive iron fence.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
• Regrowth is unlikely or impossible because no dormant growth points lie in wait under the bark on older wood.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• Aziza, a spirit and god cast into Osunde’s pages who likes to sweep people up and place them in a netherworld, is just the kind of being to lie in wait.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2022
• The new Hammerhead mine is designed to lie in wait on the seabed floor, listening for the telltale signs of enemy submarines.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2020
• There, friendly faces, painful secrets and ancient histories lie in wait, as do the sights and sounds of a natural world in richly suggestive bloom.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2021
• Just as ticks lie in wait for an animal to brush past, researchers waited for unlucky humans to discover and report their encounters.
  — Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
• Poachers lie in wait at river crossings to ambush these animals and saw off their velvet antlers, which are thought to have medicinal properties.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2020
• Because of the friction points and the complicated user onboarding, scammers just lie in wait, waiting for the right time to pounce on their newfound prey.
  — Michael Peres, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
• In moving water, the Torpedo makes a commotion in even the fastest-flowing rivers where giant smallmouth lie in wait for a hapless meal.
  — Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Without the ability to travel through the cosmos, we’re left to look through telescopes and collect data to determine whether other planets lie in wait.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• Like their celestial spirit animal, the scorpion, Scorpios lie in wait and strike when least expected.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 31 July 2020
• Called Comet Interceptor, the mission would launch to a stable point in Earth orbit and then lie in wait for a fitting target.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2019
• Megalomania and tyranny lie in wait when a leader begins to see themselves as the personification of their nations.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• Only a block to the hospital, and now, post-infusion, throngs effuse love, do not seethe with malicious intent, do not lie in wait to make deadly, unexpected moves.
  — Kathleen Ann Goonan, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2012