Sentence examples for while whilst from inspiring English sources

I've been invited before, it's usually held this time of year and somehow the idea of a drink, a good meal and catching up with people you've not seen for a while, whilst November does it's worst outside, seems like a good idea.

4) 1903 wax cylinder recording of Fanny Cochrane Smith "The only known recording of the last member of a now extinct tribe of Indigenous people from Tasmania … I became quite obsessed with this recording for a while, whilst researching for a score I made for the film based on Julia Leigh's novel The Hunter.

"Lee is a player we have had an eye on for a while whilst he has been playing with Swansea's U21 side," Robins manager Mark Yates told the club website. .

He then proceeded to throttle me and punch me for a while whilst shouting "You're wrong!" The entire wing was gathered outside the cell by this point, trying to look through a tiny slit in the door.

Read the monologue aloud for a while, whilst moving around.

9.09pm GMT 47 min As not much comes to pass on the pitch, an email: "Clearly it's a very subtle form of pretension, like me sitting here at work in a suit and tie while (whilst? don't speak the Queen's English here in Texas) our dress code only states that slacks and a collared shirt are required.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "He has been resident at the castle for a short while, but whilst he has been there, he has also undertaken engagements on the Isle of Wight".

The idea behind the software, called stylometry, is an old one: the mathematician Augustus De Morgan proposed in 1851 that authorship might be sussed out through word frequencies, and the early nineteen-sixties saw the use of manual counts to determine authorship of the Federalist Papers — researchers noticed, for instance, that Hamilton used "while" and Madison used "whilst".

I had, of course, heard of US English, but having been brought up on Commonwealth English (I hesitate to use the term "the Queen's English"), I found myself automatically allowing all sorts of things through that looked OK to me but were picked up by Byron: grey for gray, whilst for while, plough for plow, centre for center, 4 July for July 4, and the like.

The actors rehearsed in the back of the minibus while they travelled, whilst Ms Hadfield spent a lot of her time trying to solve problems that arose during production.

In two cases the tablet crumbled while being split, whilst in the third case the tablet split unevenly.