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Example sentences for "little while"

  • It clouded up en 'uz pooty dark for a little while.

  • De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up.

  • But in a little while I see a pale streak over the treetops, and knowed the day was coming.

  • So the chances are four to two, or five to one, that the war will at no time during the evening become the topic of conversation; and the chances are still greater that if it become the topic it will remain so but a little while.

  • Montague reflected for a little while, and then asked: 'From the country, do you know?

  • He said not a word more, and being left to himself for a little while, crept back again to the coach.

  • Here and there, a coal fire in an iron cresset blazed upon a wharf; but, one knew that it too had been black a little while ago, and would be black again soon.

  • A little while afterwards he was in some other strait.

  • A little while afterwards he had taken a new house, and was going headlong to ruin for want of a water-butt.

  • But a little while afterwards, I had reason to feel penitent for my neglect.

  • It took him a little while to recover from his surprise at the cure of his first, and as he had firmly believed, his last and only love.

  • Writing, thinking, and directing all at once might well bewilder the poor lady, and Meg begged her to sit quietly in her room for a little while, and let them work.

  • Aunt and Flo are very kind, but you seem like one of the family, and it would be so comfortable to have you for a little while.

  • In a little while, however, I was sensible that some one was approaching me, with a light, but slow and hesitating tread.

  • Have patience with me, and bear with my languor and crossness a little while, till I get this cursed low fever out of my veins, and then you'll find me cheerful and kind as ever.

  • A little while before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they earned each day at this occupation; he had been told thirty sous.

  • A little while before he had shivered because the garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one there.

  • You were speaking of my name a little while ago.

  • By these I am called plain Champdivers, a name to which I have a right, but not the name which I should bear, and which (but a little while ago) I must hide like a crime.

  • Sure enough, in but a little while after, he fell into a sleep as gentle as an infant's, which insensibly changed into the sleep of death.

  • I began a little while ago to want the garden quite badly.

  • In a little while," he prophesied, "Pedro will be here.

  • In a little while an opera glass could attain it.

  • In a little while a multitude had come out, the remoter just little specks of ultramarine in the shadow of the eastward cliff.

  • Then the sound of their talk becomes confused again; they halting for a little while, and some earnest action on the part of Neville succeeding.

  • The pupil hung his head for a little while, as they walked on, and then said: 'You never saw him beat your sister.

  • They were silent for a little while, and then Mr. Crisparkle began anew.

  • When he reached his fence the smoke and dust were so thick he could scarcely breathe, and for a little while he was unable to see what had happened.

  • A little while afterward I seen a fellow standin' in the restaurant door.

  • I spoke to you a little while ago--in the saloon back there.

  • Not yet, dear light; a little while longer, it is so sweet to lie still.

  • Was that a humming-bird we saw a little while ago?

  • He gave the king forty marks of gold for his reconciliation; and he lived but a little while after--only three years.

  • Then gave he the king forty marks of gold for a reconciliation; and then thereafter, lived he a little while, but three years.

  • Bishop Ethelgar succeeded him in the archbishopric; but he lived only a little while after, namely, one year and three months.

  • Some of the ministers did visit the sick at first and for a little while, but it was not to be done.

  • Two or three of the weaklier hoggets were dead, from want of air, and from pressure; but more than three-score were as lively as ever; though cramped and stiff for a little while.

  • We may have to wait a little while for it, though.

  • In a little while we will have ice and snow, and Thanksgiving and Christmas.

  • I went a little while ago, but a lady let me take her glass.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little while" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little about; little ahead; little and; little back; little broth; little chopped; little clearing; little cousin; little fellow; little flock; little hamlet; little importance; little inclination; little library; little mare; little master; little noise; little ones; little panel; little town; little walk; little water; little wind; little yellow; pearl barley; place where