after a while
idiom
: after some time has passed
We will get started after a while.
The job got easier after a while.
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The poster managed to get a seat but after a while, an elderly man got on the bus.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Of course, all that excitement does get tiring after a while, and the dogs in side B eventually wind down for a brief nap.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The subjects’ multifaceted backgrounds — from Arab organizers to Jewish students to community Rabbis — helps weave a multicultural fabric, which becomes, at first, a subtle de facto retort to claims of the protests’ inherent antisemitism, and after a while, a very explicit one.
—Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2025
But, after a while, even Alec isn’t quite sure where the act ends and his true identity begins.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Of course, all that excitement does get tiring after a while, and the dogs in side B eventually wind down for a brief nap.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The subjects’ multifaceted backgrounds — from Arab organizers to Jewish students to community Rabbis — helps weave a multicultural fabric, which becomes, at first, a subtle de facto retort to claims of the protests’ inherent antisemitism, and after a while, a very explicit one.
—Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2025
But, after a while, even Alec isn’t quite sure where the act ends and his true identity begins.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for after a while
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“After a while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/after%20a%20while. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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