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.
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Yes, that’s an amazing opportunity – and rare for a writer to be on set the whole time.
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
In addition to beginning with something that more explicitly resembles the films, this restructuring provides just enough context so that what follows once the ship has crashed in New Siam makes more sense, and is scarier, than if we were disoriented the whole time.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
The experience concluded with Harris, as Garrett, channeling Columbo (without the Brooklyn accent) interrogating the acolytes about their alibis, or lack thereof, and revealing that Seb had been dead the whole time after falling off a cliff in Mexico.
—Liam Quinn, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
The engine operates at its most efficient points for the whole time.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
In addition to beginning with something that more explicitly resembles the films, this restructuring provides just enough context so that what follows once the ship has crashed in New Siam makes more sense, and is scarier, than if we were disoriented the whole time.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
The experience concluded with Harris, as Garrett, channeling Columbo (without the Brooklyn accent) interrogating the acolytes about their alibis, or lack thereof, and revealing that Seb had been dead the whole time after falling off a cliff in Mexico.
—Liam Quinn, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
The engine operates at its most efficient points for the whole time.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for the whole time
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