all the while
Example Sentences
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Across two hours, Buckley’s Bride shoots, kicks, contorts, dances, scrapes, whizzes, licks and screams, all the while coming no closer to her true self than she was at the start of the film.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
No trace, no proof of life, and all the while, the nation is informed of every twist of what mostly is not happening.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026
It’s an assembly of archetypes going through the motions, snow falling and lights twinkling all the while.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Government borrowing costs have been rising all the while.
From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025
She asked how Pa was and how Aunt Pretty was and how I was, all the while pulling down sun-dried pillowcases and folding them.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
