Sentence examples for rather while from inspiring English sources

Rather, while the planners and architects are thoughtfully discussing the options, decisions are being made on the ground.

"I never got to go on," she said of the understudy jobs; rather, while waiting backstage, she wrote school papers on her laptop.

Or rather, while he meticulously records every horror, he uses a calm graphic style that gives his drawings a fresh and direct feel of eyewitness truth.

Rather, while finding that in general most drinking water supplies appear safe, they identified dozens of towns, mostly in the Midwest, where infant exposures appeared likely to have exceeded their safety threshold.

Rajah Banerjee, of the Makaibari estate, only decided to become a tea-planter after, or rather while, falling from a startled horse while hunting: "In the split second that I fell, I perceived a brilliant band of white light, connecting me to the trees in the forests around me... the woods sang out melancholically in an incredible concerto, 'Save us!

Rather, while the company has a very tight management control system, it is not "controlling" in the traditional way.

It took rather a while to get going but this tournament is destined for an utterly compelling finish.

It is more likely that Pteranodon could take off from the water, and would have dipped for fish while swimming rather than while flying.

He sat there for a while, rather tipsy.

"I focused a lot on responding to the desires of my partners," she writes, "while rather haphazardly satisfying my own".

I want to make something that people will listen to for a while, rather than something that's just trendy.