the whole time

noun

1

: since something began : during the entire period of time

The police knew the whole time who was guilty.

2

British : at all times : always

You can't be right the whole time.

3

British, informal : very often

My sisters and I used to fight the whole time.

Examples of the whole time in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The car’s hazard-warning lights were blinking the whole time. — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

That’s been the same the whole time, that feeling, that love for each other. — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026

But these sequences were reintroduced to the human genome later in our history, so recombination should be far less frequent relative to a genome that’s been in the modern human lineage the whole time. — ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026

The actual owner had been living there the whole time, with no plans to move out. — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Rhymes for the whole time

• aforetime
• allozyme
• anytime
• christmastime
• cybercrime
• dinnertime
• guggenheim
• isozyme
• lysozyme
• maritime
• mesenchyme
• overtime