all the while
idiom
: during the entire time
He claimed that he was happy, but he was thinking all the while of quitting his job.
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The performers draw and write on a 4-by-4-foot wooden plank with charcoal; all the while, contact mics at each corner of the plank amplify the surface sounds on four correlating speakers in the Constellation space.
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The officer was forced to run, and Silva chased him, all the while swinging the knife at him, according to the report.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Inside her was the growing awareness that Sebastien had only been writing her, Dani, out of a sense of duty, all the while hotly suffering a much more grownup correspondence with the incredible Yvonne.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
And all the while, manufacturers made more and sold cheap, contributing to carbon dioxide emissions and exacerbating climate change, to Ms. Postma’s frustration.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
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Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The officer was forced to run, and Silva chased him, all the while swinging the knife at him, according to the report.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Inside her was the growing awareness that Sebastien had only been writing her, Dani, out of a sense of duty, all the while hotly suffering a much more grownup correspondence with the incredible Yvonne.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
And all the while, manufacturers made more and sold cheap, contributing to carbon dioxide emissions and exacerbating climate change, to Ms. Postma’s frustration.
—Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
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“All the while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20the%20while. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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