12 sentences with 'while'
Example sentences and phrases with the word while and other words derived from it.
• « I lay there for hours in the emergency room while the staff tried to remove the bowel obstruction. »
• « After a while, when his books became famous and he began to be sought out by literary men, academics and politicians of renown, he showed the same indifference to praise that he had previously shown in the face of rejection. »
• « In this case, the surgeons had to work while the heart was beating. Because they were handling something that kept moving, they had to use all their expertise. »
• « I was about to leave, while he was facing a 20-year prison sentence, or perhaps the death penalty. And yet he was genuinely happy. »
• « Two of the last questions Sarah asked while she was still able to use her computer were, "What will happen when I die?" and "Does it hurt to die?" »
• « In the operating room, while trying to reactivate the boy's heart, the doctor felt trapped in a nightmare. »
• « As he was still recovering from the shock of his mother's death, while looking for a new support for his existence, it is easy to understand that the encounter with that new machine, noisy and powerful, represented for the boy a dramatic experience. »