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How To Use awhile In A Sentence

• The build process can take awhile and doesn't produce a great deal of output to the screen.
• Since corporate America is more interested in hoarding than rehiring, the New Poor are going to be around for awhile. Mark Olmsted: No Pizza, No Peace: The New Poor and the Coming Blowback
• Saw her awhile back at the Community Theater, as a matter of fact.
• Once in awhile he'll tell me to calm down, tell me, 'Don't overswing.' USATODAY.com - Gifted pair revealing more for us
• Suffice it to say that if I feel any kind of twinge, I wait awhile to see if it's worth the time investment to go. Stupid question.
• So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
• American English Coonhound: I know this coonhound has waited awhile to make it into the WKC show, but I just don't see any star power from this guy. Westminster Dog Show 2012—as it happened
• Returning I crossed the top of the mountain and halted awhile to admire the glorious sunset afterglow.
• I don't know much about his kittenhood, but I do know he was fostered for awhile in a farm-like environment ie, outdoors where he shadowed people quite closely but had no other reported behavioral anomalies. Crazy Cat