awhile
Use Awhile in a sentence
adverb
for a short time or period: Stay awhile.
Usage note
The adverb awhile is spelled as a single word: After stopping in Hadley awhile, we drove to Deerfield. As the object of a preposition, the noun phrase a while is used, especially in edited writing, but the single-word form is becoming increasingly common: We rested for a while (or awhile).
The adverb awhile is spelled as a single word: After stopping in Hadley awhile, we drove to Deerfield. As the object of a preposition, the noun phrase a while is used, especially in edited writing, but the single-word form is becoming increasingly common: We rested for a while (or awhile).
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| —adv | |
| for a brief period | |
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Word Origin & History
awhile
O.E. ane hwile "(for) a while," usually written as one word since 13c.
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Example sentences
For awhile she thought she might both practice medicine and do research.
And it certainly took them awhile to get their stories straight.
Neither are employed at the moment, and their time is their own for awhile.
Awhile back, some of us were comparing our commuting distances on one of these fora.
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