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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Cameron’s team built machines that were water jet propelled so that his actors could rocket through the water under the surface, come up and fly above the surface and then dive back in, all the while letting the technology drive the story and vice versa.
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
Managers can bounce around with mixed success, all the while having their reputations increasingly typecast.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
The members of the two groups crammed into a series of London flats together, and all the while, Bulsara was trying to make his way into Smile.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Jack did an especially excellent job of conveying the emotions of the song without getting too theatrical about it, all the while keeping his beautiful voice and impressive range on full display.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 22 Sep. 2025
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
Managers can bounce around with mixed success, all the while having their reputations increasingly typecast.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
The members of the two groups crammed into a series of London flats together, and all the while, Bulsara was trying to make his way into Smile.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Jack did an especially excellent job of conveying the emotions of the song without getting too theatrical about it, all the while keeping his beautiful voice and impressive range on full display.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for all the while
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“All the while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20the%20while. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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