Sentence examples for a while rather from inspiring English sources

He sat there for a while, rather tipsy.

They might even expect to meet some of those star professors once in a while, rather than just buy their books.4.4

How about we give Wal-Mart some credit once in a while rather than always trying to put a "Target" on its back.

Traffic would flow with fewer interruptions – people might even prefer to send their car to drive around for a while rather than trying to find a parking place.

An employer asking for commitment may also be hoping to find someone who will stay for a while rather than using the job as a stepping stone elsewhere.

Having stumbled over a cliff, it may seem preferable for both parties to stay there a while rather than to begin scrambling back up its face.(Photo credit: AFP).

They will view this act of mass murder as a social media aberration that only darkens their social media timelines for a short while, rather than as evidence of a wakeup call in the form of the single deadliest mass shooting in US history.

So when Verizon was finally ready to push out the Omnia, a handset which (while rather gorgeous) doesnt have all that much pull in the US, did they think to squeak it down into the sub-$200 range where their biggest competitors sit?

I had to think about it for quite a while — or, rather, he obliged me to think about it.

Once in a while somebody rather nervously attempts to explain away the phenominon - an influx of war workers on holiday, but we know better than that.

For a while, he rather cockily propped her postcard on the mantelpiece, and in the letter to Geri he signs himself Leonardo Vincenzo.