Sentence examples for were for a while from inspiring English sources
They were, for a while, his only mistakes.
The Florida Panthers are for sale and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks were for a while and might be again should the right party offer the right price.
The three men became far more famous than many of the models with whom they worked, and were – for a while – bigger than the glossy magazines that published their pictures.
It was such a pleasant day, in fact, that we were for a while accompanied by a flock of magpies and by a banded racing pigeon that seemed to have gone AWOL.
So my elder brother Pieter and I were for a while, for that critical time when reading to children in bed is so important, the only audience she had.
In fact, I shoved the poor creatures over the edge of a companionable silence into a conversational abyss out of which, being delightful folk from Wisconsin, they were for a while too polite to clamber.
It hasn't been for a while.
There haven't been for a while.
At least he was for a while.
He hasn't been for a while.
