5 example sentences showing how to use awhile, grouped by meaning.
adv For a short time.
Take two cupfuls of rolled oats, put in bread pan, turn on four cupfuls of boiling water, stir for awhile.
— Rufus Estes, Good Things to Eat (1911)
Engine No. 18 went off into a shed to rest awhile, and No. 7, a precisely similar one, backed on to the train in her place.
— , When the Circle was Steam Operated (1944)
Let's sit here awhile before heading back.
She paused awhile to catch her breath.
Wait awhile and the rain will probably stop.
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