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Example sentences for "while working"

  • Keep beside you, while working, something in which to stick the needles you are not using at the moment.

  • A little later, on a hot day in the trench, while working, the sapper turned to a comrade and saw a great black spot on his face.

  • His first convulsive seizures came at 40, while working at the docks, following a night on which he had drunk a bottle of whiskey.

  • A fortnight later, while working in the trenches, he had more epigastric sensations with vague discomfort.

  • While working at some wood-cutting a man was struck on a heavy boot by a snake, which he killed with an axe.

  • Hobbs describes a man of twenty-three who, while working, had a habit of protruding his tongue.

  • Buchanan mentions the history of a case in a woman of twenty-one, who, while working in a mill, was struck by a bolt.

  • Professor Lee was attracted to the study of Hebrew by finding a Bible in that tongue in a synagogue, while working as a common carpenter at the repairs of the benches.

  • Watt taught himself chemistry and mechanics while working at his trade of a mathematical-instrument maker, at the same time that he was learning German from a Swiss dyer.

  • While working at Glasgow as a turner, he took lessons in drawing from Peter Nicholson, the well-known writer on carpentry--a highly ingenious man.

  • His principal employment, while working at his trade in Lancashire, consisted in making the wood framing of cotton machinery, in the construction of which cast-iron had not yet been introduced.

  • Thus Stone learnt mathematics while working as a journeyman gardener; thus Drew studied the highest philosophy in the intervals of cobbling shoes; and thus Miller taught himself geology while working as a day laborer in a quarry.

  • Watt taught himself chemistry and mechanics while working at his trade of a mathematical instrument maker, at the same time that he was learning German from a Swiss dyer.

  • Professor Lee was attracted to the study of Hebrew by finding a Bible in that tongue in a synagogue, while working as a common carpenter at the repair of the benches.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while working" 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:
    bids them; divers colours; dozen miles; get through; himself should; its character; its original; magnetic waves; vanilla bean; while ago; while back; while boiling; while every; while living; while longer; while some; while standing; while still; while that; while their; while they; while those; while thou; while warm; while yet; while you