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Example sentences for "while they"

  • While they confer in secret, let us learn what Fray Sibyla has been doing.

  • So that their beatitude differs little from that of swine and sheep, while they place it in a mere tolerable and contented state, either of the body, or of the mind upon the body's account.

  • Thus they jested and reparteed and played one upon another all the while they sat at table.

  • But those being eased of the evils of life through the evils of death have, it is very true, the want of sense to comfort them, while they, as it were, make their escape from life.

  • For a while they ran on, till Lozelle called in a loud voice to the sailors to let the anchor go, and sent a messenger to say that all might rest now, as they were safe.

  • Sinan stared at them and stroked his beard, while they trembled, waiting for the word of fate.

  • While they sat at it Masouda appeared for a moment to tell them that they had leave to ride the bridge in the moonlight, and that their escort would await them at a certain hour.

  • Sometimes He was on the mountains, while they were in the valley vainly trying to cast out stubborn devils, or wearily toiling on the tumultuous, wind-tossed sea.

  • While they struggled to force their way in the unequal conflict, their right flank was overwhelmed by the irresistible attack of a fleet of galleys, which were urged down the stream by the united impulse of oars and of the tide.

  • While they debated, a few voices saluted Jovian, who was no more than first [101] of the domestics, with the names of Emperor and Augustus.

  • Such men as he be never at heart's ease, While they behold a greater than themselves.

  • She withdrew from the casement, while they passed, but soon returned to observe them further.

  • Those that are most sanctified have yet a body of sin and death in them, and so also it will be, while they continue in this world (Rom 7:24).

  • Their horses on which they rode, from various parts, were sheltered in neighbouring friendly farms, while they, to avoid suspicion, ascended the hill by scarcely visible footpaths.

  • While they ate (Philip had a scone and butter and a cup of chocolate), he discovered that his companion was called Dunsford.

  • Someone suggested that, if the war went on, in a while they would be glad to take anyone who was qualified; but the general opinion was that it would be over in a month.

  • While they talked of him he stood a little apart from the others, watching the noisy party with a good-humoured but faintly supercilious expression.

  • Then she knew that the Badawi's proposal was a snare and that he had tricked her; and she continued weeping and crying out the whole night long, while they journeyed on making for the mountains, in fear any should see them.

  • While they were in this condition, a man stepped in under the arch, darkening the lewen.

  • While they talked, and before the first watch was over, one by one the shepherds went to sleep, each lying where he had sat.

  • So they performed with their ropes and gags, and we lay there like two little kittens while they tore up our work and smashed things generally.

  • While they waited, uncertain as to what they ought to do, another shot came, this time from the corral.

  • While they stood in the shadow of the mountain a man came stumbling down the slope ten yards away from them.

  • So much as that, while they turned to go up together, he had objected.

  • So his slight resistance, while they lingered, had been just easy enough not to be impossible.

  • Weary though Ranjoor Singh must have been, he sat late with the German officers, for the most part keeping silence while they talked.

  • While they fight, let us eat up distance into Persia, gold and all!

  • The Great Captain made no difficulty in granting such terms, as, while they had a show of liberality, secured him the most important fruits of victory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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