He happened to be here a short while since, when the letter arrived.
No wonder that her husband does not like home, except for a short while in the hunting season.
After a short while it came to pass that three daughters were born to the House at Windesem, namely Eemsteyn, the House of the Blessed Virgin, and the House of the New Light near Horn.
Thou hast behaved like a madman, and here the truth of the old saw will be proved; `but a short while is hand fain of blow.
By almost superhuman efforts he succeeded in securing the means of going on with the Herald, and in a short while the "great fire" occurred just in time to save him.
In a short while, they resume operations under a new name with an entirely new scheme, and repeat the same trick from year to year.
But a short while ago a family may have been living in the humbler quarter of the city, or even in a tenement house.
In a short while, however, Watson was accidentally killed; and Sweeny resigned, leaving Connolly master of the situation.
It seemed but a short while to me, but excited as I had been, and confused in my ideas, it might have been an hour, or even more.
In a short while the "scranching" sound announced that the hoops and nails were giving way; and after another kick or two the board flew out, and slipped down between the boxes quite out of my reach.
For a short while I suffered these painful apprehensions, but soon an idea came into my mind that gave me relief; and that was, to replace my jacket in the crevice through which the rats had entered, and thus shut them out altogether.
Fortunately, I had been absent only for a short while.
These inconveniences are but slight, when one has only to suffer them for a short while; but under long endurance, they become irksome and even painful.
A short while ago, spending a spring week-end with a friend who lives in the country, I chanced to see a brilliant scarlet bird which neither my hostess nor I could identify.
A short while ago a little girl friend of mine was showing me her birthday gifts.
In a short while, however, they grew used to the country and its ways, and then their feats, instead of meeting with a certain amount of derision, provoked the enthusiastic admiration of the Columbians.
As a rule he would set apart a short while in the morning and afternoon for the personal reception of petitions.
In order to preserve the thread of these rather complicated events, it is necessary to transfer the scene for a short while to Western Europe, where at the moment the armies of Napoleon were sweeping all before them.
This, however, is somewhat in advance of the period with which we are dealing, and it will be necessary to return for a short while to Peru in its colonial state.
These were received among the deities of older standing, and were wont to be acknowledged, and so, after a short while, were considered as foreign no longer.
It was in his possession, so, following your line of logic, it was his--for a short while.
He himself had shuddered a short while before, at waking in a bar where there was no mirror, and he had planned to wire Harvey for five hundred to take him back to civilisation.
Sir Raife lazily went to bed, now to sleep, for a short while, that tired sleep that comes to youth which is only in love, and has no greater anxiety than a torn heart recently healed.
When I was in Nice, a short while ago, they had a plan for stealing the Baroness von Sassniltz's jewels.
In that brief, short while he had recognised Detective-Inspector Herrion of Scotland Yard.
Raife re-entered the house where, a short while before, he had stealthily entered as a burglar.
The liaison of Princess Pauline with this amiable officer was the most lasting that she ever formed; and as, unfortunately, neither of them was discreet, their mutual tenderness acquired in a short while a scandalous publicity.
The First Consul had been installed at Saint-Cloud only a short while, when the chateau, which had thus again become the residence of the sovereign at enormous expense, came near falling a prey to the flames.
The life that I led at this time was very pleasant to a young man like myself, who could not foresee that in a short while he would be as much under subjection as he was then at liberty.
I was in a terrible rage, and called Clairmont and began to scold him, but he said that the lamps were all right a short while ago, and that the man must have put them out of order that he might have the task of repairing them.
I opened it, and recognized the name I had heard a short while ago.
But all the same, sir, we shall be on our guard against you for the future, though that will be for a short while, as we are just leaving.
The Swiss, who had been pale and gloomy enough a short while before; was rubicund and affable.
Why, in a short while you'll be having a headache again!
On her return, in a short while, she discovered that lady Feng was not on the hillock.
They had arrived in Bristol only a short while antecedent to its state of semi-siege, the Powells having long preceded them thither.
The avenger of his sister's wrongs fled for a short while; the wounded Tinkler recovered, and, to repair the injury he had done, made the girl his wife.
Bear that in mind, for I know not how ye escaped with your lives but a short while ago.
Then go now, a wanderer once more, Untuswa, but only for a short while.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short while" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
