How to Use all the while in a Sentence
all the while
idiom-
Wages, all the while, rise up to four times the national average, increasing according to skill level, with mentorship provided by the maalema, or master weaver.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2024
-
And all the while, White tried her hand at the legendary word game.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
-
And, all the while, a new scab would be forming on his knee.
—Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
-
There's so much to juggle all the while feeling a deep painful sense of loss.
—Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
-
Keep her growth front and center and all the while, stay a bit detached from it all.
—Meghan Leahy, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023
-
The seals adapted to catch short naps during 30-minute deep dives to the bottom of the ocean, holding their breath all the while.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
-
And all the while, the pair wound up learning a useful tip to help resolve conflict.
—Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
-
The two race against the clock to stop a Jack the Ripper-esque killer all the while circling their love for each other.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
-
Everybody is struggling in some way, and all the while, the wildfire looms.
—Kayla Maiuri, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
-
And all the while, humans—and everything else living on the planet—pay the price.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
-
Also, all the while, he's remained one of the greatest activist voices of our time.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
-
With growth comes the demand to push more money to the middle of the table, all the while hoping, fingers crossed, fans will buy it.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
-
And all the while, on this first day in the outside world, Paulina had to keep in mind her parents’ very strict instructions.
—The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
-
Return pan to low heat, stirring all the while to avoid lumps, until mixture smooths out, forms a rough ball around the spoon, and leaves sides of pan.
—Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2023
-
Law enforcement, all the while, rushed toward the danger.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
-
And Rome, the Maryland agent, once took on a house that had been listed for four years with four different agents — signs out front all the while.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 2 June 2024
-
Usopp, despite his fear, is yelling for the villain to fight him instead, all the while encouraging Luffy to get up and fight.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
-
And all the while, a light show scythes through the nimbus of fragrant blue cigar smoke hanging above partygoers’ heads.
—Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
-
The video shows several skiers and snowboarders sliding down the slope, the moose running not too far behind them all the while.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
-
The new Bing will try to offer you suggestions in each case, all the while citing various sources at the bottom of the answer though a list of web links.
—PCMAG, 8 Feb. 2023
-
During various songs, she was lifted high above the floor in a carriage and moved from one end of the arena to the other, all the while singing and dancing 30 feet above the crowd.
—Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
-
Yet all the while, the faithfulness of God nudges the actions of these fallible people along the path toward law, justice and mercy.
—Francis Spufford, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
-
Best used on damp hair, the curler provides big, bouncy curls in four to eight hours—and its silky material keeps hair hydrated all the while.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2024
-
So Enfield and his staff laid out the areas where Wright needed to get better in order to earn it back, all the while trying to stay positive.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
-
And yet, all the while, Badu has maintained an air of almost magical mystery about her; a not-quite-of-this-world-ness, despite being born and bred in Texas.
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2023
-
Loch Raven’s defense shut out Eastern Tech until the fourth quarter, all the while holding the Mavericks to less than 100 yards of offense.
—Michael Pope, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
-
Stanton proceeded to lift his onstage assistant with a chain attached to his eyes, all the while holding a pair of long swords in his throat.
—USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
-
The film gets your blood pumping from the drop and doesn’t waste a second of its hour-and-forty-minute runtime, propelled all the while by composer Gavin Brivik’s hypnotic score.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
-
But all the while, Snapchat has quietly become the world’s fastest-growing social platform, my colleague Clare Duffy writes.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
-
Israel has all the while kept tight control over Gaza’s coastal waters, its airspace, its airwaves, and all of the crossings into the Strip except for a small one maintained by Egypt.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2023
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'all the while.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: