Use meantime in a sentence
Sentences starting with meantime
- Meantime Howells had written his Atlantic notice of Tom Sawyer, and now inclosed Clemens a proof of it. [5]
- Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
- Meantime their tongues were not idle. [10]
- Meantime the Indians were bringing in supplies of corn and meat, the men were so improved in health that thirty were able to work, and provision for three weeks' bread was laid up. [4]
- Meantime the days went along and the weeks, and the money in Harry's pocket got lower and lower. [5]
- Meantime the stage was wandering about a plain with gaping gullies in it, for the driver could not see an inch before his face nor keep the road, and the storm pelted so pitilessly that there was no keeping the horses still. [5]
- Meantime his mother was inspecting a card which had disclosed itself upon the floor when she cast the curtains back. [5]
- Meantime the King was having a complete suit of armor made for her at Tours. [5]
- Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. [5]
- Meantime Smith, going up to the Falls to look after Captain West, met that hero on his way to Jamestown. [4]
Sentences ending with meantime
- What are the young men of the villages and the cities doing meantime? [4]
- And it went well with Henderson meantime. [4]
- I worried over that heedless blunder for an hour, and called myself a great many hard names, meantime. [5]
- He had been on his feet a good part of a day and a night (for it was now two or three o'clock in the morning), and had eaten nothing meantime. [5]
- If we cannot find those isles we can only try to make north-west and get in the track of Sandwich Island-bound vessels, living as best we can in the meantime. [5]
Short sentences using meantime
- Meantime shadow No. [5]
Sentences containing meantime two or more times
- Meantime he was humming to himself just as before; and meantime, too, the stove was getting hotter and hotter, and the place closer and closer. [5]
More example sentences with the word meantime in them
- In the meantime, you stop walking the floor. [5]
- In the meantime would the Scientist kill off a good many patients? [5]
- I said we would leave the village at 3 or 4 P.M. on the morrow; meantime he could notify the guides, and also let the public know of the attempt which we proposed to make. [5]
- I thought I would just look around, meantime, in a quiet way, and make up my mind. [5]
- Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
- I shall return with you to Leyden and from thence try to reach Delft; meantime I'll keep watch and give you warning, if necessary. [10]
- I spent money with a free hand, and meantime watched the stock sales with an interested eye and looked to see what might happen in Nevada. [5]
- Meantime, the new wisdom had come to me, and I read it with shame. [5]
- In the meantime William Wetherell had entered the store by the back door--unperceived, as he hoped. [9]
- Meantime, the data will be arranged by those people who have charge of all such matters, the great chief Brahmins. [5]
- Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
- Meantime, Ruth Leigh went on her round. [4]
- In the meantime we were off through Cursitor Street at a gallop, nearly causing the death of a ragged urchin at the corner of Chancery Lane. [9]
- In the meantime, we have enough to do in observing the existing order of things, and investigating the laws by which it is governed. [10]
- Meantime, whilst he was talking with the protonotary, the bolder guests ventured to move about more freely, and of them all Cordula imposed the least restraint upon herself. [10]
- Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
- Onion Clemens, meantime, was forwarding his manuscript, and for once seems to have won his brother's approval, so much so that Mark Twain was willing, indeed anxious, that Howells should run the "autobiography" in the Atlantic. [5]
- Meantime, a home was being built for them in Hartford, and in the autumn of 1874 they took up residence in ita happy residence, continued through seventeen years--well-nigh perfect years. [5]
- Meantime, did you try commanding your mind to wait for orders from you, and not do any thinking on its own hook? [5]
- West, which plot took but small effect, for in the meantime Capt. [4]
- Meantime his wife too had relapsed into a thoughtful silence, and her movements were beginning to show a troubled discomfort. [5]
- It was difficult to say, meantime, whether the road was laid out in the river, or the river in the road. [4]
- Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. [7]
- Presently he intended to look about him for something to do that would satisfy Edith and fill up his time; but meantime he drifted on, alternately anxious and elated, until the season opened. [4]
- Belotti allowed this to be done, but meantime listened with special attention to the low chanting that issued from the bedroom where the old lady's body lay. [10]
- They dragged her to a tree and threw a rope over the limb, and began to make a noose in it, some holding her, meantime, and she crying and begging, and her young daughter looking on and weeping, but afraid to say or do anything. [5]
- Meantime, if you thought well of it, you might write her and arrange a meeting, telling her it is by my suggestion and that I gave you her address. [5]
- Meantime Sally had thought her case out and made up her mind. [5]
- After solemn argument, this point (with others of a technical nature, whose humorous extravagance it would be difficult to exaggerate) was referred to the judges for their decision, Sampson being meantime removed to his former quarters. [12]
- Meantime why should they be separated? [5]
- In the meantime there was the public: to permit the other fellow to capture that was to be lacking in ordinary prudence; if its votes counted for nothing, its savings were desirable; and it was fast getting into a state of outrage against monopoly. [9]
- In the meantime there had been sadness and mourning in the apartments of the queen-mother. [10]
- Meantime affairs took their usual course. [4]
- In the meantime, the woman, gathering the implements she had used, and the head, placed them again in the sack. [5]
- The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite. [5]
- Meantime the knapsacks, the rough walking-suits and the stout walking-shoes which we had ordered, were finished and brought to us. [5]
- In the meantime the Provost Marshal-General has had access to yours, and has addressed a communication in relation to it to the Secretary of War, a copy of which communication I herewith enclose to you. [7]
- Meantime supply me the particulars of Major-General Blunt's case. [7]
- In the meantime, the one who brought it, by cutting the neck of the head, caused that also to bleed. [5]
- Meantime I reread the newspapers and also our descriptive circular, and observed that our twenty-five thousand dollars reward seemed to be offered only to detectives. [5]
- In the meantime the news had got abroad in the street that the butcher's apprentice was to fight one of the Hawk's men, and when I emerged from the tavern the crowd had doubled, and people were running hither in all haste from both directions. [9]
- In Robinson's case the Moment had been approaching for a quarter of a century--and meantime the future Conciliator was tranquilly laying bricks in Hobart. [5]
- De Pontius in the meantime, and then came to me. [5]
- It's fascinating in the meantime, and it wastes my time like an old friend. [5]
- In the meantime the House passes an important bill dealing with the bounty on hedgehogs, and there are several card games going on in the cellar, where it is cool. [9]
- In the meantime the Honourable Elisha Jane, spurred on by desperation and thoughts of a 'dolce far niente' gone forever; has sought and cornered Mr. Bascom. [9]
- In the meantime the deceased Casi came from the direction of an out-house, and stood in front on the threshold of our room with a 'lota' in her hand. [5]
- In the meantime the American frigate 'Alliance' had brought Lafayette to France, and was added to the little squadron that was to sail with the 'Bon homme Richard'. [9]
- Meantime, where is the agricultural fair and cattle-show? [4]
- Meantime Raleigh, knowing that the colony would probably need aid, was preparing a fleet of three well appointed ships to accompany Sir Richard Grenville, and an "advice ship," plentifully freighted, to send in advance to give intelligence of his coming. [4]
- Presently I will tell you how to escape the assassin; meantime I shall have to examine your thumbmark again. [5]
- In the meantime take food to our sister. [5]
- He must not stop with advertising for the owner of that money, but must put it where he could not borrow from it himself, meantime, under stress of circumstances. [5]
- Meantime Mary was still reaching for the lap-robe. [5]
- Meantime, judgment is still blent with mercy. [14]
- They proceeded to starve him slowly to death, meantime frightfully maltreating him--as the village people now make known, when it is too late. [5]
- Meantime, they had spread intemperance everywhere. [5]
- Meantime Mary had spent six thousand dollars on a new house for herself and a pair of slippers for her pastor, and then had fallen peacefully to rest. [5]
- Meantime, with inimitable solemnity, he threw back the upper portion of the body and his curly head, placing his left hand on his hip. [10]
- Within the next six hundred yards he crossed the street fourteen times and attempted thirteen gates, and in the meantime the tropical sun was beating down and threatening to cave the top of my head in, and I was literally dripping with perspiration. [5]
- In the meantime, since Mr. Hodder has seen fit to remain in spite of our protest, I do not intend to enter this church. [9]
- Meantime Williams sat silent, and apparently deeply and earnestly interested in what the old man was saying. [5]
- In the meantime she drifted with astounding ease into another existence. [9]
- Meantime, Sally had several times thrown out a feeler--that is, a hint that he would like to know. [5]
- Would he have sent it if it had been three years old, I in the meantime deceased, and he aware of it? [5]
- Meantime the young Saxon duke had approached Barbara, and expressed his admiration of the successful festival, but she scarcely heard what he said. [10]
- Meantime the inspector sat there, buried in thought. [5]
- The second year, sales would reach 200,000 bottles--clear profit, say, $75,000--and in the meantime the great factory would be building in St. Louis, to cost, say, $100,000. [5]
- Meantime the sumptuous robe of state had been removed from Tom's shoulders to the King's, whose rags were effectually hidden from sight under it. [5]
- Meantime human nature remains the same, and the whole thing is a weary round that has no advance in it. [4]
- Meantime the party remained stationary in the center to watch his movements. [5]
- In the meantime Reeder had been taken into the office of Dr. Owens, where his wounds were properly dressed. [5]
- Meantime he has reached here and reported to me. [7]
- Meantime, snowballs had rained upon his body and head from all directions, increasing his fury; and as soon as Xaver no longer struggled he started up, exclaiming with glowing cheeks and upraised fists: "Wait, wait, you wicked fellows! [10]
- We've got the rail road to fall back on; and in the meantime, what are we worrying about that $200,000 appropriation for? [5]
- Meantime I shall put up a pair of hatchments on my house-front, and you will of course do the same at your several seats. [5]
- Type-setter prospects seemed promising, but meantime there was need of funds. [5]
- One isn't a printer ten years without setting up acres of good and bad literature, and learning--unconsciously at first, consciously later--to discriminate between the two, within his mental limitations; and meantime he is unconsciously acquiring what is called a "style. [5]
- Yet meantime the pen did not wholly stop. [10]
- And meantime other parties had had better fortune. [5]
- But meantime Brother Page had been agitating. [5]
- We slackened our pace to let them come up, and in the meantime I got out my cargo of grapes and dropped them firmly but reluctantly into the shadows by the wayside. [5]
- Meantime Harry blossomed out in the society of Hawkeye, as he did in any society where fortune cast him and he had the slightest opportunity to expand. [5]
- In the meantime our friends, with a view of detaining our expected bolters, had been turning from me to Trumbull till he had risen to 35 and I had been reduced to 15. [7]
- He said the other day that to venture out of the Capitol for a day at this time could easily chance to hurt him if the bill came up for action, meantime, although it couldn't hurt the bill, which would pass anyway. [5]
- Meantime there is one thing which I ask you to notice. [5]
- Meantime there was one thing which had got pushed into the background of my mind. [5]
- The colors, meantime, on the level water, never were on painter's palette, and never were counterfeited by the changeable silks of eastern looms; and this gorgeous spectacle continued till the stars came out, crowding the sky with silver points. [4]
- I have ridden on horseback all over this island (Oahu) in the meantime, and have visited all the ancient battle-fields and other places of interest. [5]
- Orion Clemens, meantime, on a trip to Keokuk, had casually married there, and a little later removed his office to that city. [5]
- Sometimes a man offends the Deity with a crime, and is punished for it thirty years later; meantime he was committed a million other crimes: no matter, Henry can pick out the one that brought the worms. [5]
- Meantime, Howells's notice of the Sketches appeared in the Atlantic, and brought grateful acknowledgment from the author. [5]
- Meantime the news of the massacre had traveled far and an army of rescuers with Havelock at its head was on its way--at least an army which hoped to be rescuers. [5]
- Meantime the news of the disasters to the colony, and the supposed loss of the Sea Venture, had created a great excitement in London, and a panic and stoppage of subscriptions in the company. [4]
- Meantime a detail of Socialists had swarmed up the side steps and overflowed the President and the Vice, and were crowding and shouldering and shoving them out of the place. [5]
- In that group of impassioned individualities, March felt him a refuge and comfort--with his harmless dilettante intention of some day writing a novel, and his belief that he was meantime collecting material for it. [8]
- Meantime, a conversation of a very different nature was held before the hut. [10]
- This, with what nourishment we can get from boot-legs and such chewable matter, we hope will enable us to weather it out till we get to the Sandwich Islands, or, sailing in the meantime in the track of vessels thither bound, be picked up. [5]
- If you have not, then I suggest that, with all possible expedition, the Army of the Potomac get ready to attack Lee, and that in the meantime a raid shall, at all hazards, break the railroad at or near Lynchburg. [7]
- Meantime he did not neglect social life--that is, the easy, tolerant company which lived as he liked to live. [4]
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