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Example sentences for "whilst still"

  • Boil the mixture and immerse the cover-slip in it, whilst still hot, for one minute.

  • Whilst still hot, empty each tube in turn and roughly clean its interior with a stiff test-tube brush.

  • The above pairs, whilst still in flower, but with some capsules already formed, were afterwards cut down and weighed.

  • The former produced, whilst still kept in the greenhouse, eight pods, containing on an average 2.

  • Nevertheless these plants, whilst still protected by the net, spontaneously produced a considerable number of self-fertilised capsules.

  • Whilst still in the egg, one end of the primitive embryonal mass becomes gradually narrowed, cilia at the same time appearing.

  • In well-developed embryos, whilst still in the egg, the cilia are observed to clothe every part of the larva except the oral papilla.

  • The precipitated citrate of lime is next thoroughly washed with water, and the sulphuric acid, diluted with 6 or 8 times its weight of water, whilst still warm, is poured upon it, and thoroughly mixed with it.

  • A portion of the sample for examination is heated to dull redness, and then suddenly thrown, whilst still hot, into a vessel of cold water.

  • That it was real sleep was shown by these same leaves reassuming their diurnal position on the following morning (10th) whilst still kept in the dark.

  • In poring over the forgotten pages of the poetry of the beginning of the century, Rossetti, whilst still a boy, met with the scriptural drama of Joseph and his Brethren.

  • Whilst still a child, his love of literature exhibited itself, and a story is told of a disaster occurring to him, when rather less than nine years of age, which affords amusing proof of the ardour of his poetic nature.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whilst 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:
    begotten thee; commercial success; fight them; five guns; foreign corn; fresh proof; hundred sequins; hydraulic press; leaving their; made clear; money matters; natural laws; obscure corner; organic evolution; personal friend; pyrogallic acid; religious questions; volcanic formation; whilst others; whilst speaking; whilst still; whilst the; whilst they; whilst those; whilst young; worthy lord