lying in wait in English

waiting in an ambushing, hiding and waiting for -

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1. 15 synonyms for Ambuscade: ambush, trap, ambush, bushwhack, surprise, waylay, ambush, lying in wait

2. The killer was just using him as bait, lying in wait with a sniper rifle across the street.

3. Assuming the accomplice was already lying in wait, he would've had the aforethought to bring a more suitable weapon.

4. Following the Aberfan Disaster in 1966, many Colliery spoil tips were cleared amid fears of similar tragedies lying in wait.

5. Lying in wait, simmering in obscurity before the opportune moment to strike, the four-song Spoiled Marrow announces Anthropophagous' arrival with …

6. To lie in ambush: as, “Ambuscading ways,” noun A lying in wait and concealment for the purpose of attacking by surprise; an ambush

7. 14 The planes were on their way to neutralize any enemy submarines which might be lying in wait for us outside Bungo Strait.

8. By lying in wait like the horned viper, he could, in effect, bite the heels of the horse carrying an enemy warrior and cause it to rear up and dump its rider off backward.

9. Garden Route accommodation ranges from idyllic forest cabins to boutiques hotels, and a wide variety of lodgings is lying in wait for those travelling South Africa in the pretty area known as The Crags

10. 53 So when he went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to put extreme pressure on him and to ply him with many more questions, 54 lying in wait for him to catch him in something he might say.

11. Assassinated (10 Occurrences) Acts 23:21 I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have Assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you." (WEY)