betweenwhiles
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of betweenwhiles
Example Sentences
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The play begins and ends on the observation tower of the Empire State Building; and though, betweenwhiles, it shifts to the hero's bachelor apartment, it never really comes down to earth at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
We lingered on, looking and marveling, and betweenwhiles wondering whether our automobile's hacking cough had got any better by resting, until the sun went down and the twilight came.
From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
He's worse now; I think he forgets betweenwhiles what was said the last time they looked.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various
She would regularly change the ice, or the cooling spirit, on his head, and would keep her ear at the pillow betweenwhiles, listening for any faint words that fell from him in his wanderings.
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
Wherewith the music broke out in strains of welcome from the grove, with voices betweenwhiles Rene himself assisted each princess to dismount, and respectfully kissed her on the cheek as she stood on the ground.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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