Learn · Sentences Expressing Emotions

I feel like I’ve been waiting forever.

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Sentence

Narrator

I feel like I’ve been waiting forever.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Expressing Frustration

I feel like I've been waiting forever for this appointment.

Describing a Long Wait

The line was incredibly long; I felt like I'd been waiting forever.

Exaggerating a Time Period

It seems like I've been waiting forever to hear back from them.

Informal Conversation

Ugh, I feel like I've been waiting forever for this bus!

Rephrased versions

Formal

I have experienced an inordinate delay.

Casual

It feels like ages since I started waiting.

Simpler English

I've waited a really long time.

Phrases to learn

feel like

To have a subjective impression or belief.

waiting forever

An idiom expressing a feeling of prolonged and excessive waiting.