(adv.) For a while; for some time; for a short time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
(2) The Swiss ping it around awhile, to a lusty chorus of "olé"s, led by the Brazilian contingent in the crowd I'll be bound.
(3) If the euro did not exist, it would not be necessary to introduce it yet awhile.
(4) Fletcher faffs around in the centre circle awhile, but nothing opens up for him either.
(5) 7.54pm GMT 9 min: Colback is in plenty of space down the left, but there's no option for him in the centre, so he checks back and fannies around awhile.
(6) Unfortunately, these were to be the last legislative and political accomplishments of the GOP for ... well, it's been quite awhile now.
(7) 13 min: Slovenia pass it around awhile in the centre, getting nowhere.
(8) So, dramatic US action on climate change is one of those things that is just going to have to wait awhile.
(9) This "he-struggles-so-very-much" conceit is one Obama officials have been pushing for awhile, as when they anonymously boasted to the New York Times about Obama's deep personal involvement in choosing the targets of his "kill list", something he insists upon because he is "a student of writings on war by Augustine and Thomas Aquinas" and wants to ensure compliance with those lofty principles.
(10) He's looking to free Aguero, but the striker loses his footing and skitters around on his face awhile.
(11) In January, Bill Clinton turned on MSNBC for what seems to have been the first time in awhile and shared his reaction to what he saw in an interview with Esquire: "I was just watching MSNBC , and they had a woman that used to work for me and a couple of other people on there, and they were talking about the Republican primary.
(12) Then wait awhile, and do whatever it is Facebook planned to do anyway.
(13) I suspect he'll continue to stand to Cruz's side for awhile longer, collecting speaking engagements and offering Cruz fulsome praise until Cruz's moment ends.
(14) Minority enrollment did grow dramatically for awhile, but since 1974 the nationwide percentage of minority students enrolling has remained about the same despite the rising percentage of minorities in the population (although some individual schools have recruited and graduated relatively large numbers of minority students).
(15) Jorge Rodriguez clambers on to a stool in a grittyMexico City neighbourhood, logs on to a computer, checks his email, googles awhile, then with a pencil and jotter starts transcribing parts of a New York Times article translated into Spanish.
(16) We might be here for awhile at this pace, ladies and gentlemen.
(17) Come in Evan… You don't want to head for C4 yet awhile.
(18) 7.55pm BST 8 min: Barcelona press forward awhile, Alves and Villa taking turns to cause a small amount of bother down the right, but Bayern are quickly breaking upfield, Lahm gambolling down the right.
(19) But as she sorted piles of donated food and supplies on Friday, Cooper, who was unarmed, admitted that it could be awhile before she reunites with her 17-year-old son and two daughters, ages eight and nine.
(20) But those lousy poll numbers and those big legislative initiatives, they probably aren't going anywhere for awhile.
While
Definition:
(n.) Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent.
(n.) That which requires time; labor; pains.
(v. t.) To cause to pass away pleasantly or without irksomeness or disgust; to spend or pass; -- usually followed by away.
(v. i.) To loiter.
(conj.) During the time that; as long as; whilst; at the same time that; as, while I write, you sleep.
(conj.) Hence, under which circumstances; in which case; though; whereas.