How to use "while" in a sentence

It will be good to have company for a while.

After a while, I begin to feel uncomfortable again

I am happy while the visions last

I decide to rest for a while.

Realising this makes me want to do something while it's still light.

Eric gives me more water while Monique and Andy run back to get the police

One afternoon, while the Nautilus was on the surface of the water, I went upstairs to have a look outside

The 'showers' were just a long hole in the ground for us to stand in, while somebody threw water over us

Then we watched while our men moved off the hill and came down into the valley.

Every day for the next few weeks, I went with Mr Chi (that was his name) and watched him while he worked

So me and the President of America watched TV while I ate my breakfast!

I am crying while I write this, but please don't try to find me.

Jenny sat next to me while the little boy started playing with Sue.

Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection

And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand un repealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government

And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.

One section of our country believes slavery is RIGHT, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is WRONG, and ought not to be extended.

The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived, without restriction, in one section, while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other.

Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either

YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it

I tell you that while my friend believes also in the doctrine of violence and has adopted the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak, I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest

He told me that Miss Niner was very ill and he looked sad while he told me

Mme Magloire trembled, open-mouthed with fear, while Mile Baptistine rose from her seat with alarm

During dinner, Mile Baptistine looked at Valjean kindly while the bishop talked about the local cheese-making industry

Early the next morning, while the bishop was studying the flowers in his garden, Mme Magloire ran out of the house with a look of alarm on her face.

They made her get up before dawn every day and do all the dirty jobs around the house, while Eponine and Azelma wore pretty clothes and played with dolls

Madeleine sat by the bedside and watched Fantine while she slept

They waited nervously while the man studied the bill carefully, expecting him to complain or cause trouble

He lit a candle and sat by the bed, watching her while she slept

A few evenings later, while he was giving Cosette a reading lesson in his room, Valjean heard the front door of the house open and close

After a while, he felt confident that he and Cosette were not being followed

The girl was always talking happily, while the man said very little

Towards the end of the second week, while Marius was sitting in his usual place, he looked up from his book

The next morning, while he was working, there was a gentle knock on his door.

A large woman with greying hair, once red, was sitting by the fire, while a thin, pale-faced child sat on one of the beds.

'Our daughters barefoot and without a dress between them, while she wears leather boots and a fur coat? You must be wrong

Some men, including Marius, stayed on the main barricade, while the others built a low stone wall around the door of the wine shop

He had been looking after wounded men while bullets flew all around him

The old man walked to the window and, while he complained to the night about the pain and grief his grandson had caused him, the doctor arrived

For five minutes Oliver rows, and soon the jetty and the hotel look much smaller, while the attendant is almost impossible to see in the half-light of the new evening.

He was hit by a car last year while he cycled across Brow Top road

And the brothers laugh as they watch Gerry and the truck drive up the road to Hobbs Creek while the great Australian sun begins to fall behind the horizon.

And while she watches, she lets the flames touch her, too

So he drives, and for a while he feels better

And for a while he thought that he would die in the deep dark corner behind the wall

Junior looks a bit happier now, and for twenty minutes Owen talks to him about how to hold the gun and how to walk with it, while his son listens carefully and asks sensible questions that show a real interest

And for a while they walk, and he is happy about how carefully Junior holds the gun and how he listens and does exactly what he should

And for a little while more they wait, until the surface of the pool is calm again

Sarah thinks about her cosy sofa and the Chinese takeaway she will eat while watching TV

Inside, Niki went to meet some other friends while Sala looked around the busy entrance area for Cham

"They give you both while you're in there

Sala thought for a while

Sala and Cham swam with them for a while - further out into the ocean first and then back toward the beach

Cham sent her another message while she was on her way to say that he was in Space 46, and when she went in, he'd already chosen an illusion

It might take a while to find the right time, but..

You know, I'm starting to think I might stay in for a while longer."

'A little while ago, you said you wanted to keep your memories

Wait here while I go and see.'

I heard the phone ring while I was having breakfast and Frith answered it

For a while, she listened.

As long as she left his things undisturbed, she could continue to entertain the hope that Danny was not dead, that he was just away somewhere for a while, and that he would shortly pick up his life where he had left off

Someone had come into the house while she was out and had printed those two words on the chalkboard again

Instead, she was coming in for a few hours this evening, while Tina was at the premiere.

Many were still in the communal dressing rooms, while other girls, already costumed, waited in the halls or at the edge of the big stage, talking about children and husbands and boyfriends and recipes, as if they were secretaries on a coffee break and not some of the most beautiful women in the world.

She had lasted quite a while herself

This afternoon, however, she'd been playing a pair of lucky slot machines at the Mirage Hotel, and she hadn't wanted to walk away from them while they were paying off so generously

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

They would nod and smile woodenly and agree that it was a strange and frightening experience, but all the while, they would be thinking that poor old Vivienne was finally getting senile

Hotel management personnel, showgirls, dancers, magicians, crewmen, and musicians crowded around the tables, sampling the offerings while Phillippe Chevalier, the hotel's executive chef, personally watched over the affair

He was shuffling cards when he saw her, and he continued to shuffle while he spoke

Ice rattled in glasses as gamblers drank while they played

Two uniformed security men were performing first aid on the unconscious man, loosening his tie and collar, taking his pulse, while a third guard was keeping curious customers out of the way.

But once in a while, a guy really loses track, doesn't get up for hours and hours, just keeps on playing like a zombie

Michael kept up the friendly patter while he got his cone of ice cream

When I saw you walk into the casino a while ago, I knew I was right

After a while, she decided that she was crying for Danny

She asked the computer for the same information that Angela had requested a while ago

But it wasn't any recollection of your son that had you so upset when I walked in a little while ago."

Apparently, when a child dies, one of the worst things a parent can do is refuse to look at the body while it's lying in a casket

Listen, why don't you mix us a couple of drinks while I change out of this suit

He walked her to her Honda in the driveway and leaned in the window after she was behind the wheel, delaying her for another fifteen minutes while he planned, to her satisfaction, every dish of this evening's dinner.

In the middle of the block, Kennebeck finally said, "I'll have to chew on it for a while, Elliot."

In those days, the corpse was not embalmed; therefore, the boy was buried while still alive

The last panel of the illustrated story showed the parents and the boy walking out of the graveyard while Death watched them leave

She smiled at her bewildered host and went to the passenger side of the car while Elliot opened the driver's door.

And even if he was deeper under than I thought, some of his people probably went in there and pulled him out while I was rushing off to you

He was aware of her watching him, and after a while she said, "You know what?"

They rode in silence for a while.

By unspoken agreement, Tina and Elliot didn't talk about their problems while they ate

She had the same feeling of being watched that she'd had in the parking lot a short while ago.

He can't handle a deck well enough to stack it while he's shuffling

A group had gone down a while ago and would be returning for their last stand at the tables before a whole new staff came on duty with the shift change

He had thought Evans might be keeping a vigil at the demolished house, while the firemen sifted through the still-smoldering debris, searching for the remains of the woman they thought might be buried there

The raw, damp wind was stronger now than it had been a short while ago, when they'd landed at the airport

Crouching beside one of those bushes, huddling in the shadows just beyond the circle of frosty light from a nearby street lamp, he pulled the pistol out of his coat pocket while Tina drove away.

They were silent for a while

Billy Sandstone watched Tina intently for a while, but at last, he shifted impatiently in his chair

"One thing I learned in the military was you have to stop and regroup your forces once in a while, but if you stop too long, the tide will turn and wash right over you."

"You get the feeling that civilization could be destroyed while you're out here, and you'd never be aware of it."

After a while he said, "Did you see the pictures they took of the kid's brain this morning?"

If security discovers we're here, at least they won't be able to get their hands on us for a while."

And when the host expires, the Wuhan-400 within him perishes a short while later, as soon as the temperature of the corpse drops below eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit

Almost thirteen months ago, when Danny and the other boys in his troop were on their winter survival outing, one of our scientists, a quirky son of a bitch named Larry Bollinger, accidentally contaminated himself while he was working alone one morning in this lab."

It's good exercise, and it gets you out of this hole in the ground for a while

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

I took her back and waited while she went up to her room

I held the champagne and glasses while he unlocked the door and switched on the lights

He had come to stay at the Blue Boar Inn, while he examined an old burial ground on Colonel Protheroe's land

As I closed it, I suddenly decided to go down to our shed, which Lawrence Redding was using as a studio, to look at Griselda's picture while no one was there

And the colonel was shot while he was writing a letter

So while Mary can't cook we're safe, because nobody else would want her

I was rather worried about meeting Lawrence in the garden while my husband was inside the vicarage.

'Could I wait here with you for a while?'

We got there without any problems at about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I had supper with my cousins and left my wife in their care.

We shouted and they stopped while we hurried towards them

While the curate had sat and talked so wildly to me in the flat fields near Walton, and while my brother was watching the refugees pour across Westminster Bridge, the Martians had started to attack again

He put a hole in its front tire while he was pulling it through the broken window, and cut his wrist, but he managed to get away on it

He heard their screams and, hurrying round the corner, saw a couple of men trying to pull them out of the little cart which they had been driving, while a third held onto the frightened horse's head

My brother went into the crowd and stopped a horse pulling a cart, while she drove in front of it

The ship travelled on while the passengers wondered.

For hours we lay there in the darkness, while from outside came the sounds of hammering and then, after some time, a sound like an engine

The hole was only big enough for one of us to look through, so I had to stop watching them for a time while he had his chance.

We've got to learn while we've got a chance

And we've got to live and stay independent while we learn

But before dawn my courage returned, and while the stars were still in the sky I turned again towards Regent's Park

In the middle of the night, while her husband is sleeping, she decides to go to the cottage

I didn't answer him for a while, because I was laughing so much

After a while, he returned with a dead rat in his mouth

After a while, I Harris said, 'I've got an awful headache

Montmorency stayed at the restaurant, while we went to the theatre.

anyway, she will have to wait a little while for that and it is just her bad luck.

In a short while, Mercy left the house to go and live in the government house that Mensar-Arthur had managed to get for her.

After a while she asked me if I lived in London.

You'll stay to manage the house while I'm away.'

Sir P sometimes let me go away for a short while

Newspapers and magazines told women to keep a nice, clean home while their husbands were at work

Rosalind is most famous for her work on DNA while at King's College, London.

She had a baby in 2018 and was only the second prime minister to have a baby while she was in the job