the whole while
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I now realise, after years as a minister, that what I have been the whole while was a sort of semi-socialist. Now I realise that we've got to try to hand back more decisions to the people. When he came into office in 1970, Mr Heath seemed […]"
- "A high hot color has risen into her cheeks. “Mr. Lamb—do you, would you—could you mind him while I take Jeremy to Dr. Faber's?” She says this, Norris thinks, as though he has not been here the whole while, listening to matters develop."
- ""Anyway, after fifty years, what's a few more months?" "So you've been here the whole while? You never thought of going home?" "Oh, at first I did, but there was really no way to do it. I didn't bring a boat the way you folks did,[…]""
- "Where had Hans come from? He had on a pair of worn leather shorts and hiking boots. His shirt showed stains of sweat. Maybe he had just wandered by at the right time . . . or maybe he had been here the whole while, watching."
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:the whole while."