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Sentences starting with while

While it lasts you're rich, and you're young, and you don't care what happens. [11]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
While they gazed, young Brady arrived, panting, and put into Tracy's hand,--sure enough--an envelope. [5]
While he's up-stairs, you'll get out of the way, and I'll clear off Mr Richard. [12]
While I thought you were making your fortune (as you said you were) you were making yourself a beggar, eh? [12]
While he was yet speaking, Caracalla, leaning on the table by his couch with both hands, fixed his eyes on his face, without a word. [10]
While the light Yet lingers in the darkening hall, I come to say a last Good-night Before the final Exeunt all. [6]
While the hush yet brooded, the messengers of the coming resurrection appeared in the East. [5]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
While the night wore on he rode as slowly back to the town as he had galloped from it like a centaur with a captive. [11]

Sentences ending with while

I will drive you with pleasure up and down behind the grove for a little while. [10]
There, now, if you please, go before me, and let me stay here alone a little while. [10]
But seriously, Jethro, you and Wetherell ought to send her to school in Boston after a while. [9]
But they didn't yet a while. [5]
There will no wrong come of all this, if you will but wait a little while. [6]
I was never worth while. [11]
I callate you won't stay with him a great while. [9]
There was a wondering silence now for a while. [5]
You are the woman I want, and I think I may say without boasting that I can give you what you desire in life--after a while. [9]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]

Short sentences using while

A while back, you remember. [5]
Wasn't it worth while? [5]
Was it worth while? [11]
Only for a while. [5]
But listen a while. [10]
Wait a little while! [9]
But wait a while! [10]
Be mine while they sing. [11]
They deplored while they coveted. [9]
While there's life there's hope. [11]

Sentences containing while two or more times

He said he would wait while I dressed, and then we would go to his apartments and I could take a bottle of champagne and a cigar while he dressed. [5]
It will be worth your while to speak out, I assure you; much better worth your while than you believe. [12]
It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too. [5]
This hush continued while I was being chained to the stake; it still continued while the fagots were carefully and tediously piled about my ankles, my knees, my thighs, my body. [5]
I owe you whatever I am that's worth while, if anything I am is worth while. [11]
Sometimes, while ---- was warning me against the faults of the artist-class, all the while vagrant artist instincts were busy in the mind of his listener. [14]
Mrs. Clymer Ketchum was so well pleased with the young lady she was entertaining, that she thought it worth while to give a party while Myrtle was staying with her. [6]
Long after he was shaved that morning, the Colonel sat rapt in his chair, while the faithful servant busied himself about the room, one eye on his master the while. [9]
Once, while I was hungrily taking in one of these surprises, and doing my best to get all I possibly could of it while it should last, I was interrupted by a young and care-free voice: "You're an American, I think--so'm I. [5]
While it yet was day, and we breathed in freedom and gladness, While the sun still shone, that light seemed small and dim; But now, when night has fallen, sinister, dark, portentous, Its kindly ray beams forth to raise our drooping souls. [10]

More example sentences with the word while in them

So, you see, you've kept me here talking when there's no need and while my business waits. [11]
But while the youth was embracing his great-grandfather, who hugged and caressed him, Nun, with youthful vivacity, was issuing orders to the shepherds and servants: "Let the tent fall, men! [10]
Try to amuse yourself while I am gone. [10]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
All respect to your Boy Eating Figs, in whose presence you would feel the pleasure he himself enjoyed while consuming the sweet fruit. [10]
But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind. [2]
He dragged our young men with him to Russia, and left them to die moaning on the frozen wastes, while he drove off in his sledge. [9]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
He mentioned my young friend and said he was very anxious to have the $7000 now to begin his banking operations with, and could wait a while for the rest. [5]
Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
I love this young creature's rapt attention to her diminutive neighbor while he is speaking. [6]
She'll sit with you, my soul, while I write a letter. [12]
The Interdict included you with Mordred; it is not to be removed while you remain alive. [5]
That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
I am sure you will join me in the hope for their further success; while yourself, and other good mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, do all you and they can, to relieve and comfort the gallant soldiers who compose them. [7]
Now it is you who are the gentleman, while I am a factor. [9]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
Oh, I implore you to crush out that fatal habit while it may yet be time! [5]
I say to you that while I live all I am is yours, fair and foul, good and bad. [11]
Now here; do you see this narrow belt of fine sediment That was deposited while the water was higher. [5]
A while ago you said that man's conscience is not a born judge of morals and conduct, but has to be taught and trained. [5]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
Stop a minute, you men; it is worth while, Sir, to tarry a moment. [10]
And besides, while you are waiting, Nature does not wait. [4]
Mrs. Clemens wrote you a letter, and handed it to me half an hour ago, while I was folding mine to Mr. Howells. [5]
I glanced through yonder letter while talking with the Exegetus; now I will dictate the answer. [10]
But even while yielding to these thoughts Barbara felt how sinful they were. [10]
To go while yet there was time, and smooth for ever the way for others by an eternal silence--that seemed well. [11]
Wrangle had never yet shown any indication of distress while Venters rode him. [13]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
Firing was heard yesterday in the direction of Blucherberg, and for a while the excitement was intense. [5]
My thoughts and yearnings followed you all the while you were away . [10]
A delicious dreaminess wrought its web about my yielding senses, while the snow-flakes wove a winding sheet about my conquered body. [5]
Laura's few friends wrote to her or came and talked with her, and pleaded with her to retire while it was yet time, and not attempt to face the gathering storm. [5]
But instead of writing it clown, the man merely stared at him, while the fat creases in his face deepened and deepened. [9]
Yesterday I was writing a deep article on a sublime philosophical subject while such a conversation was going on in the room. [5]
He could not write about the sixteenth century any more than we could read about it, while the nineteenth was in the very agony and bloody sweat of its great sacrifice. [6]
Fully clothed, and wrapped in blankets, and huddled ourselves up, by the window, with lighted pipes, and fell into chat, while we waited in exceeding comfort to see how an Alpine sunrise was going to look by candlelight. [5]
Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
That man was wounded by a trick of fate, by a cussed bit of shell from your coehorns while eating his dinner in Vicksburg. [9]
Sometimes her eyes would wander off to Mr. Bernard, and their expression, as old Dr. Kittredge, who watched her for a while pretty keenly, noticed, would change perceptibly. [6]
I thought I would stick to it while the interest was hot--and I am mighty glad I did. [5]
My best possession would not have seemed too dear a price to pay for some magic spell that would have brought you to us when, at the festal games, I danced and sang to the tambourine while the loudest shouts of applause greeted me. [10]
Once inside, Honora would look helplessly about her in the darkness while her escort would raise the shades, admitting a gloomy light on bare interiors or shrouded furniture. [9]
Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]
The imperial crown would lapse to his brother; Ferdinand's son, Maximilian, now Charles's son-in-law, was destined to succeed his father, while the Infant Philip must in future be content with the sovereignty of Spain, the Netherlands, Charles's Italian possessions, and the New World. [10]
Yet Duke Maurice would have been well worthy of her whole attention, for with what a free, proud step he advanced, while his imperial master used his arm as a support! [10]
How admiringly they would gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft, and waited patiently for him to take it! [5]
As the patient would be confined for a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. [6]
Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
She thought it would be an easy matter to keep awake while suffering such mental anguish. [10]
Perhaps it is worth while, in view of certain recent discussions, and especially of some free criticisms of this country, to consider whether there is any intention of progress in this world, and whether that intention is discoverable in the age in which we live. [4]
It is not worth while to try to get any grip upon the cloud of minor gods, there are too many of them. [5]
It was not worth while to tell them "the letter kills. [5]
It makes life worth while to talk to men like you who do really big things. [11]
It would be worth while to pass a week or a month among the plain, average people of Stratford. [6]
It might be worth while to inquire what effect this exciting accumulation of the news of the world upon an individual or a community has upon happiness and upon character. [4]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
And it isn't worth while to bear any malice. [9]
It may be worth while to be careful what one says before her. [6]
Well, isn't it worth while making the bargain? [11]
Anyway, it was worth while making such a beauty care for him. [11]
It is not worth while being so--to anybody," was her chilly answer. [11]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
Meanwhile, he would work while he could, but with no thought beyond the day, no vision of the morrow. [11]
Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
So the summer wore away, while we lived from hand to mouth on such scanty fare as the two of them shot and what we could venture to gather in the unkempt fields near the gates. [9]
Pierre, without a word, began cleaning his rifle, while Macavoy smoked, and sat looking into the distance, surveying the sweet warmth and light. [11]
Yet not a word which could have resembled a question escaped his beardless lips while he examined, sewed, and bandaged the deep sword thrust with the skill and care of a surgeon. [10]
Not a serious word had reached his ears from the wanton lips of the Lesbian, while Althea at once desired information concerning his art, and showed that she was thoroughly familiar with the works and the aspirations of the Alexandrian sculptors. [10]
Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats--despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth! [9]
And he was wont to leave his weighty business affairs to shift for themselves while he attended the diocesan and general conventions of his Church. [9]
We were commonly wont to chirp like a pair of crickets while we braided our hair and got into our beds; but this night there was not a sound in the chamber. [10]
She was very woman, and the look of the thing was not nice to her eyes, while it must belittle her in theirs. [11]
While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
That's what a woman loses who doesn't do her duty by the man that can give her everything, and that's give her everything, while she plays the Jezebel. [11]
Charley found the woman in the Notary's office, which, while partly detached from the house, did duty as sitting-room and library. [11]
Barbara had anticipated Wolf, but while going home she met him on his way to the Dubois house. [10]
Him he found, without seeking him, outside the room meant for Hadrian's sitting-room, to which, while the Emperor still slept, he was endeavoring, with the help of his assistants, to give a comfortable and pleasing aspect. [10]
It is, however, within the range of practical convenience to confer with the governments of States, while it is quite beyond that range to have correspondence on the subject with counties and cities. [7]
Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
His method was withering sarcasm, and he was clearly unable to control his animus.... No champion appeared to support Krebs, who sat pale and tense while this denunciation of him was going on. [9]
While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
The old man with the spectacles was presently overtaken by a stout, elderly woman, who landed in the exhausted condition of a porpoise that has come ashore, and stood regardless of everything but her own weight, while member after member of the party straggled up. [4]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
Both were familiar with the house, and, while the servants bore Wolf up the narrow stairs, the proud Spanish grandee lighted their way with the lantern, supporting the wounded man's injured head, with his free hand. [10]
Austen sat down, with the corner of the desk between them, while Mr. Flint opened the boxes and began checking off the papers on the list. [9]
He differed, however, with that gentleman in politics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power. [7]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
Lindau came in with some copy while Dryfoos was there, and March introduced them. [8]
Bent-Anat's face glowed with scarlet color, while her, brother went on to explain. [10]
A huge chandelier with prisms hung over the flowers at the centre of the table, which sparkled with glass and silver, while dishes of vermilion and yellow fruits relieved the whiteness of the cloth. [9]
Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]

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