Thesaurus / a while back
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synonyms for a while back
- already
- earlier
- heretofore
- once
- erstwhile
- aforetime
- anciently
- at one time
- away back
- back
- back when
- before
- before now
- before this
- down memory lane
- eons ago
- erewhile
- in former times
- in the olden days
- in the past
- lately
- long ago
- of old
- of yore
- olden days
- once upon a time
- radically
- some time ago
- time was
- used to be
- water under the bridge
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How to use a while back in a sentence
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONNow-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYOff went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONWORDS RELATED TO A WHILE BACK
- a while back
- aforetime
- already
- anciently
- at one time
- away back
- back
- back when
- before
- before now
- before this
- down memory lane
- earlier
- eons ago
- erewhile
- erstwhile
- heretofore
- in former times
- in the olden days
- in the past
- lately
- long ago
- of old
- of yore
- olden days
- once
- once upon a time
- radically
- some time ago
- time was
- used to be
- water under the bridge
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