Use WScript.Sleep() or replacement in mshta.exe one-liner

I want to use WScript.Sleep() function with a mshta.exe one-liner from a batch (I don't want to write temporary files) but I receive a WScript undefined error.

WScript.Sleep()

mshta.exe

WScript undefined

As stated in this answer:

WScript is an object provided by the W|CScript.exe hosts; IExplorer or
MSHTA don't provide it (see here).

In Sleep routine for HTA scripts:

window.setTimeOut

window.ResizeTo

select

mshta

I don't know how to make a single answer of these work or if possible.

Inside a .js run by c/wscript it works perfectly. Is there a replacement or a way to reference this function for mshta.exe?

.js

mshta.exe

I found that question, but refers to .hta files and I don't see how the answers (that create sleep functions) can be adapted to a mshta "javascript: ...;close()" commands (one of them is .vbs actually). I add about this in the question.
– cdlvcdlv
Jun 29 at 9:55

.hta

mshta "javascript: ...;close()"

.vbs

mshta vbscript:Close(Execute("CreateObject(""WScript.Shell"").Run ""ping.exe 100.64.1.1 -n 1 -w 2000"",0,True")) Try this, but Windows Defender blocks it.
– langstrom
Jun 29 at 16:26

mshta vbscript:Close(Execute("CreateObject(""WScript.Shell"").Run ""ping.exe 100.64.1.1 -n 1 -w 2000"",0,True"))

It uses the ping method, but 100.64.1.1 is in a reserved space that should never actually ping (unlike 1.1.1.1 which was common before). The -w parameter is in milliseconds.
– langstrom
Jun 29 at 16:27

-w

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