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Example sentences for "while still"

  • While still a student she visited Holland, Belgium, England, and Italy.

  • She held the position of art teacher in a school in Batavia, New York, while still a girl herself.

  • While still a member of the army he was sent to the state of Washington, at which time Walla Walla was but a log cabin village.

  • While still at a distance he took off his cap and tried to speak respectfully, but he was pale and breathless and his face was angry.

  • While still at a distance he heard as he rode the merry sounds of a soldier's dance song proceeding from the house.

  • While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.

  • While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh--a laugh such as one hears on the stage.

  • The crystalline powder of sodium binoxalate is transferred to large draining filters, washed with water until the acid solution of magnesium chloride is removed, and worked up, as below described, while still moist.

  • And then, while still he was trying to think how this could have happened, he sustained a murderous assault.

  • As has been indicated, he arrived at his conclusion through no such detailed argument; his mind leaped to it, and he rested upon it while still beset by a half-score of tormenting considerations.

  • Her man had been called Sammy all his life, because it was the name he got as a boy, so when their eldest son was born she spoke of him as Sam'l while still in his cradle.

  • In 1709, while still at Trinity, he published an 'Essay toward a New Theory of Vision,' which foreshadowed imperfectly his leading ideas.

  • RĂȘnal: "Why should he not be loved as Bonaparte, while still poor, had been loved by the brilliant Mme.

  • While still in college, they played their first professional engagement as the Smothers Brothers at San Francisco's Purple Onion nightclub and got four encores.

  • He arrived in New York from Missouri during the Great Depression, while still in his teens, carrying a sample strip he had written and drawn.

  • Today he gets up strictly to paint, and does so with such skill and efficiency that he maintains a reputation as one of America's foremost painters of nudes, while still managing to turn out five or six commissioned portraits a month.

  • While still a day and a night out from land, Barry awoke in the dim light of a misty morning, and proceeded to the deck for his constitutional.

  • While still a boy he was compelled by his parents to embrace a maritime career.

  • He had been educated with the utmost care, had been initiated, while still a boy, in the mysteries of diplomacy and court-intrigue, and was just at this time about to be produced on the stage of public life.

  • Nothing in her childhood indicated that she would, while still a young woman, have secured for herself an honourable and permanent place among English writers.

  • It has often been said that Bacon, while still at college, planned that great intellectual revolution with which his name is inseparably connected.

  • We are told that, while still a mere child, he stole away from his playfellows to a vault in St. James's Fields, for the purpose of investigating the cause of a singular echo which he had observed there.

  • While still a boy he accompanied his father to Florence, and there acquired a love for that Tuscan form of speech which he afterwards cultivated in preference to the dialect of his native city.

  • While still a child she was taken out to Surinam, then an English possession, from which she returned to England in 1658, when it was handed over to the Dutch.

  • This gives rise, while still an embryo, by a process equivalent to budding to four fully developed zooids (Ascidiozooids) similar to the parent form, and itself dies away.

  • Each sexual individual gives rise to a single offspring, which, while still in the embryonic condition, buds out a 'stolon' from its right ventral side.

  • The larvae of Botryllus sometimes attain, while still in the free state, a higher stage of development with reference to the number of gill slits, etc.

  • He did not go to the university because, while still in the seventh class of the gymnasium, he made up his mind to go among the people and enlighten his neglected brethren.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while still" 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:
    added the; bout slavery; but let; haue taken; labor organization; next issue; offered them; there will; under conditions; while above; while after; while before; while from; while living; while looking; while lying; while others; while she; while since; while sitting; while standing; while they; while warm; while working; will order; without his