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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Virginia Ritter spent most of her of the rest of her life vacillating between empathy and anger for her daughter's killer, all the while serving as a fierce victims' rights advocate in Nashville.
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Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Nov. 2025
Making his way blindly back around the jagged metal shard, moving along the side of the Gemini—finding the handholds and Velcro and the ship’s aft cable without the benefit of vision, all the while battling to keep his heart rate under control—was no small thing.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
Oral medications and lifestyle changes like diet and exercise that are typically prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes may not bring the improvements doctors expect to see, all the while the immune system continues to gradually attack cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
—Beth Krietsch, SELF, 11 Nov. 2025
And all the while, there’s always another rousing patriotic song for the peasants to sing.
—Will Tizard, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
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Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Nov. 2025
Making his way blindly back around the jagged metal shard, moving along the side of the Gemini—finding the handholds and Velcro and the ship’s aft cable without the benefit of vision, all the while battling to keep his heart rate under control—was no small thing.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
Oral medications and lifestyle changes like diet and exercise that are typically prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes may not bring the improvements doctors expect to see, all the while the immune system continues to gradually attack cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
—Beth Krietsch, SELF, 11 Nov. 2025
And all the while, there’s always another rousing patriotic song for the peasants to sing.
—Will Tizard, Variety, 2 Nov. 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 21 Nov. 2025.
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