Meaning of the whole while | Babel Free

Definitions

Always; constantly, all the time; (for) the complete duration.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I now realise⟳, after years as a minister, that what I have⟳ been the whole while was a sort⟳ of semi-socialist. Now I realise⟳ that we've got to try⟳ to hand back more decisions to the people. When he came into office in 1970, Mr Heath seemed […]”

“A high hot color has risen into her cheeks. “Mr. Lamb—do you, would you—could you mind⟳ him while I take⟳ Jeremy to Dr. Faber's?” She says this, Norris thinks, as though he has not been here the whole while, listening to matters develop⟳.”

“"Anyway, after fifty years, what's a few more months?" "So you've been here the whole while? You never thought of going home?" "Oh, at first I did, but there was really no way to do it. I didn't bring⟳ a boat the way you folks did,[…]"”

“Where had Hans come⟳ from? He had on a pair of worn leather shorts and hiking boots. His shirt showed stains of sweat⟳. Maybe he had just wandered by at the right time . . . or maybe he had been here the whole while, watching.”

“For quotations using this term, see⟳ Citations:the whole while.”

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