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Example sentences for "while ago"

  • Perhaps it was fear of her that made him dumb, perhaps that at last he knew himself for what he was by contrast with the man whose vices he had so heartily despised a while ago.

  • The Puritan's struggles were already becoming mere spasmodic twitchings; his face was as ghastly as the trooper's had been a while ago.

  • Who was that fellow that we met with you a while ago?

  • Well, anyhow, now that we've thrown light upon what I noticed a while ago, let us talk about other matters.

  • I thought I undherstood you a while ago, although find that I don't now.

  • I had to tie my collar on, because there was no button behind on that foolish little shirt which I described a while ago.

  • It was wildly exhilarating to slide along the edge of the precipices, after this grisly fashion, and look straight down upon that far-off valley which I was describing a while ago.

  • WOLFF The same man we was talkin' about a while ago.

  • Tell me this, though: I saw a gentleman leaving the house a while ago.

  • I mean what you mentioned a while ago--that business about your ridiculous descriptive essay?

  • Sir,' he lisped, in the same small voice, 'I think you trod on my toe a while ago?

  • He was old enough a while ago to insult me.

  • There was a man here a while ago--a friend of Simon Fleix there--who had been south to Pau and Nerac, and he said there was no M.

  • A while ago, she insisted on playing a game of chess; as I write the pieces lie scattered on the floor.

  • I summons you for furious driving on the high road, without lights, a while ago, and refusing to stop when called on to do so.

  • I didn't see a fox this long while," replied the old man deliberately, "but there was a few jocks went west the road a while ago.

  • One of our own men was over there a while ago, and he said there wasn't enough ore in the mine to keep their mill running full force for more than six months.

  • I was thinking of those a while ago," Darrell answered, glancing at the pictures and hangings which had not yet been removed; "I was wondering if I ought not to send them up to the house.

  • For the same reason I couldn't say yes to what you asked me a while ago.

  • It--it all came of a talk Imogene and I had a while ago.

  • In the centre of the room was the armchair on which Lydie had sat a while ago, the cushion of red embroidery which milor had put to her back, and below the little footstool covered in gold brocade on which her foot had rested .

  • His Majesty demanded your presence a while ago, sir, and hath gone to sleep in the interval of waiting.

  • I told you a while ago I could be as obstinate as my cousin.

  • Well, as I said a while ago, it wouldn't be easy.

  • A while ago a curagh went out to a ship from the big island, and there was no ship; and all the men in the curagh were drowned.

  • There was a woman went to bed at the lower village a while ago, and her child along with her.

  • I was wondering to see them in it a while ago.

  • She was with us a while ago, waiting there, as you commanded.

  • Are you fretting your heart to ribbons because that fine young gent that left us a while ago is about to be sent envoy to Bogota?

  • So, then, these are the grave perils you tried to terrify me with a while ago.

  • Even my tact, Nelly, that you sneered at so contemptuously a while ago, would save me from such a blunder.

  • That kind of thing went out quite a while ago, you know.

  • I think we'd better hold that council of war you mentioned a while ago, don't you?

  • When I came by there a while ago he was feeling fine and getting ready to dress.

  • He was riding along with that outfit a while ago, and now the alcalde has sent him back on an errand.

  • He put the revolvers away himself and locked the door--it is a snap lock--which was still as he left it when he went in the armory a while ago.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while ago" 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:
    being gone; complex sentence; could draw; feel obliged; full colour; place name; popular representation; prime necessity; rebellious house; she grew; while above; while back; while living; while looking; while many; while others; while since; while some; while standing; while that; while their; while there; while those; while thou; while waiting; while working