How to Use wait up in a Sentence

wait up

verb

• Fans may wait up to three hours to secure a spot.
  — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Apply around the seam, wait up to an hour, and then try loosening the bolt.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
• Rita Manolis was told her son might need to wait up to two years for an organ.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
• Uncle Vernon had waited up for her.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• Dieme confirmed some women have waited up to six years for their trial to begin.
  — Ricci Shryock, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
• About 3,000 people are on its waitlist, waiting up to a year to be seen.
  — Phil Galewitz, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• The robot will wait up to 10 minutes for the order to be collected.
  — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
• Teammates took her to the hospital and waited up with her until 3 in the morning.
  — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 14 May 2026
• Some travelers waited up to five hours to get through security.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• Carolina could wait up to 10 days for the start of the Eastern Conference finals.
  — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 10 May 2026
• Demolitions for buildings on the local list cannot be blocked forever, but an owner could have to wait up to three years if a demolition permit is denied.
  — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
• While most shoppers, in general, expect same-day delivery, fashion and shoe buyers were willing to willing to wait up to two days, maybe even three, to receive their purchases.
  — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Some travelers waited up to three hours in security lines before more TSA agents were brought in Tuesday.
  — Sondra Hernandez, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026
• Most will find they're verified immediately, but Unidays says some scenarios may require customers to wait up to 24 hours.
  — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 8 May 2026
• After an appointment, the RMV says travelers can expect to wait up to three weeks to get their Real ID in the mail.
  — Neal Riley, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
• Should you be selected for that audition and please the Jeopardy gods, you'll be placed into another contestant pool, and have to wait up to 24 months to hear whether you'll be invited to compete on the show or not.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Mar. 2026
• But it has been hampered by technical and staffing issues, the Financial Times reported, with passengers in 15 countries waiting up to three hours at security.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
• At the Legacy Learning Center in Haslet, Republicans are having to wait up to an hour to get to a voting machine, but Democrats have little to no wait at all.
  — Rachel Royster updated March 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
• Merrill Gay, executive director of the CT Early Childhood Alliance, said that families are waiting up to eight months to get off the waitlist.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2026
• Anxiety rises in Moscow Russian media have reported that people are waiting up to 18 hours in lines at the pump, with internet memes popping up, one showing people setting up tables with drinks and shisha pipes next to their stationary cars.
  — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
• According to the Independent, British travelers have been warned of waits up to six hours at popular European destinations such as Italy, Portugal and Spain.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 8 June 2026
• Despite the action, long security lines persist, with some travelers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport waiting up to three hours.
  — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
• By early Saturday, the strain was already visible at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where travelers could be waiting up to 150 minutes, according to CNN.
  — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 21 Mar. 2026