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Example sentences for "while longer"

  • Should you dispute the bill, I will not stoop to quarrel with you, but, try to live on bread and butter a while longer.

  • But I have no doubt that you will not object to keeping the miniature a while longer.

  • He pondered a while longer, when suddenly his face lighted up.

  • Be simply 'Girl' to me for a while longer.

  • You'll have to wait in here a while longer--and you'll have to keep mighty quiet.

  • I had expected to return to Washington last week, but as Doctor Allison forbade me to travel for a while longer, I had the drafts of the treaty sent on, and urged the German Ambassador to pay me a long-deferred visit.

  • Frau Nimptsch, who happened to be talkative this evening, philosophised for a while longer, while Lena was bringing in the supper and Botho continued to amuse himself by teasing Frau Doerr.

  • In this fashion she went on for a while longer, and the wholly undisputed fact of growing older every day pleased her so much that she repeated it several times yet.

  • Botho and Lena asked them to stay a while longer.

  • And after he had sat a while longer, he rose up and threw six loads of dry pitch-pine on the fire.

  • Well, after she had gone a while longer, she met a fox.

  • Now, when the girl had been in the hill a while longer, she did the very same thing with her other sister.

  • But in praxi--since the world has not yet become entirely sensible--won't it be necessary to respect the prejudices of a stupid majority for a while longer?

  • So, after studyin' on it a while longer, I got up an' dressed an' sneaked out of the house.

  • You just keep quiet for a while longer," said Banks.

  • It will keep the frost off for a while longer, don't you think so?

  • He gradually became awake, at any rate to suffering, and Dr Thorne began to think that the last scene would be postponed for yet a while longer.

  • Had he chanced to have been made acquainted with that little conversation about the pump, he would probably have postponed it even yet a while longer.

  • The doctor sat a while longer, still looking at the counterpane, and then got up to depart.

  • The going for it must wait a while longer I am afraid.

  • Another reason why I must bide a while longer.

  • I must stay here for a while longer," continued Armand firmly.

  • If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a while longer.

  • But be that as it may, I want to live a while longer.

  • Fabio held his wife's hand for a while longer; silently he raised it to his lips, and withdrew.

  • Let us live on a while longer, at any rate!

  • They talked a while longer, and Robert listened, intent, eager.

  • Robert talked with him a while longer, and then he suggested that he go to the Hawk and tell his friends there good-bye, as they had probably returned to the ship by this time.

  • If they wished to keep their secret a while longer, then they had good reasons for doing so.

  • Several ideas passed through his mind and he finally said: "Will you stick to the case a while longer if I do?

  • The Bradys questioned her closely for a while longer.

  • It won't do any harm to try a while longer.

  • After working a while longer he said as if in afterthought, "Ye'll bide wi' me a while?

  • We must sleep, Martin--sleep and eat, for we are spent with much labour and many hardships, and it is well for them to sail our ship for us a while longer.

  • Jacob dozed a while longer where he was, having seen all that; for he was a man who could put two and two together as well as another, and he had learned what he wished to know.

  • We're going to stay up here a while longer, Paul," said Henry.

  • The next morning Big Fox, Brown Bear, and The Bat saw three Miami belt bearers depart with peace belts for the Shawnee village, but as for themselves, they would remain a while longer, enjoying the Miami hospitality.

  • Let them sleep a while longer," said Mr. Witherspoon.

  • Wait a while longer," Tom told him, "and one of these fine days you may see Horace wake up.

  • It is fortunate indeed that we can do so, being both for a while longer in the day.

  • And he was ready to quit when he remembered Kamela, and knew that he must fight a while longer.

  • Right now you should eat, then I'll check your bandages and you can sleep a while longer.

  • He forced himself to remain in the soft warmth of the casket a while longer, as Krause had instructed him.

  • They stayed there by the entrance a while longer, then went together to the bed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while longer" 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:
    friendly terms; generally made; more usually; operative societies; ornamented with; shrill voice; twenty thousand; while above; while after; while another; while back; while even; while every; while his; while listening; while longer; while looking; while lying; while sitting; while some; while their; while there; while those; while waiting; while warm; while when