Sentence for while | Use while in a sentence

Sentence using the word while. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use while in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for while.

  • It will take a good while. (14)
  • We can talk while we are out. (12)
  • Mrs. Lapham was silent a while. (9)
  • For a while Voss sat without moving. (12)
  • Voss let her cry for a little while. (12)
  • Keep upright while I am speaking to you! (10)
  • How could I leave her while this war lasts? (8)
  • In a little while Mrs. Mountstuart would arrive. (10)
  • Poisoned honey is after all honey while you eat it. (10)
  • While I was sitting there Tor came in with a letter. (8)
  • Evan laid out the notes, and eyed them while dressing. (10)
  • Lavender, rising, while the small man hiccoughed again. (8)
  • While they were at breakfast the letters were brought in. (4)
  • Mr. Pericles frowned, while Emilia held her hand out to him. (10)
  • She looked up at the first thin wave of colour while walking. (10)
  • His sense of property is extreme, while you have practically none. (8)
  • They glorify her topping wisdom while on the march to confound it. (10)
  • I breathed some thanks to my father while she and I conversed apart. (10)
  • Edward nodded, as if briefly assenting, while his features sharpened. (10)
  • Edward nodded, as if briefly assenting, while his features sharpened. (22)
  • He could never have told of what he thought while he was walking home. (8)
  • She did not think of her words while Miss Paynham continued mutely sketching. (10)
  • He fought his way to the front again, while the dense crowd elbowed and cursed him. (13)
  • They might ask, too, whether it is likely to cease to flow while he remains potent. (10)
  • And it was awfully decent of him to have come, and to stand there while he drank the tea. (8)
  • As he made no comment on it for a while, Dan was obliged to ask him what he thought of it. (9)
  • But she went with Mrs. Lander to see her, and she saw Mr. Milray, too, for a little while. (9)
  • Dan drew it out of his pocket, after some fumbling for it, while he tolerated their gibes. (9)
  • Their filmy blue, half overflown with grey by age, was poignant while the fire in them lasted. (10)
  • For Love, the charioteer, is easily tripped, while honest jog-trot Love keeps his legs to the end. (10)
  • But while Cæsar was considering these things an opportunity of acting successfully seemed to offer. (14)
  • It was Miss Cotton, who, while this process of quiescing lasted, appeared not to know Mrs. Brinkley. (9)
  • The diplomatist laughingly requested her to save herself anxiety on that score, while under his wing. (10)
  • While she was mounting the two flights of stairs, she stopped twice, breathless, from a pain in her side. (8)
  • I doubt if he would have complained if Mrs. Adister had been waiting on him all the while, or not a soul. (10)
  • She made a signal to her groom, and sent the man flying in pursuit of him, while she turned and cantered. (10)
  • The old feeling that she had never understood him, never done him justice, bit him while he stared at her. (8)
  • When we arrived at Warleigh, poor Augusta could scarcely breathe, while Margaret was all Life and Rapture. (4)
  • No necessity existed for compelling the world to bow to Lady Grace, while on behalf of his Nataly he had to . (10)
  • He had taught her to rely on him blindly, and thus she did it inanimately while cutting herself loose from him. (10)
  • While doing so, the red and white pinks which she had noticed at noon again caught her eye in the starlight night. (5)
  • During this long period, while Frontenac was ruling far away in Quebec, the population of Acadia slowly increased. (19)
  • While Miss Current and her ephemerals lightly skimmed the surface of human life, the Countess worked in the depths. (10)
  • Furtive and fascinated, her eyes remained fixed on Bianca, while her hand moved, mechanically ticking the paragraphs. (8)
  • Sir Willoughby was proud of her, and therefore anxious to settle her business while he was in the humour to lose her. (10)
  • For some minutes Kasteliz spoke in pure Hungarian while Swithin waited, with a forced smile and a fixed look in his eye. (8)
  • They seemed to be dancing in a slow and sad cotillon, while behind the hedge on every side were warders armed with guns. (8)
  • Everybody was satisfied; and she was left to the tremors of a most palpitating heart, while the others prepared to begin. (4)
  • We spent ten days with the Storys at Crosby Lodge, and while there went to Naworth and Corbie Castles and Lanercost Abbey. (14)
  • And while the sweat dropped heavily from the forehead of Aswarak, she stepped out of the circle of serpents, singing, Over! (10)
  • But how, supposing she did not rub him to bristle with fresh irritations, how go to his wife while Henrietta held her throne? (10)
  • Each will wait an hour or two hours cheerfully while an old lady does her marketing or a gentleman finishes the papers in a café. (2)
  • While they were getting ready, some one rang, and Bella went to the door, and then came to tell her father that it was Mr. Lindau. (9)
  • As he dismounted he was greeted by the master of the house on the portico, while his horse was attended by a watchful black servant. (18)
  • Before we could reach them he had pulled her up to the driveway, and stood holding her there while she crazily grieved at her rescue. (9)
  • She had brought her bonnet and sacque down-stairs with her, and was transferring them from the hatrack to her person while she talked. (9)
  • The squire had paid her people an annual sum to keep away from our neighbourhood, while there was a chance of my taking to gipsy life. (10)
  • For Mrs. Berry well knew that ten minutes alone with the hero could only be had while the little bride was in that unattainable position. (10)
  • Two continents of cloud met and exchanged salvos overhead; while all round the horizon we could see sunshine and clear air upon the hills. (2)
  • X Loud we heard the yellow rover Laugh to sleep, while we raged thick, Thick as ants the ant-hill over, Asking who has thrust the stick. (10)
  • When I again became conscious, I found myself wrapped up in a pilot-coat, while my clothes were drying: the vessel was at anchor in Wexford. (6)
  • You say the shopman piles a heap, While I perhaps am fasting; And bless your wits, it haunts him in sleep, His tin-kettle chance of lasting! (10)
  • Good-bye to ambition, I thought, and ate heartily, considering robustly the while how far lower than the general level I might avoid falling. (10)
  • The Protestant you see, does not confess, and she has to absolve herself, and must be doing it internally while she is directing outer matters. (10)
  • Tinman continued muttering angrily over the Australian wines, with a word of irritation at Gippsland, while promising to be watchful of his temper. (10)
  • And it was a character strangely open to feminine perceptions, while to masculine comprehension it remained a dead blank, done either in black or in white. (10)
  • He endeavoured, long endeavoured, to soften my resentment; but that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments. (4)
  • Their tempers were mild, but their principles were steady, and while his parent so expressly forbade the connection, they could not allow themselves to encourage it. (4)

Also see sentences for: awhile, meanwhile, whiles.

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