after a while
idiom
: after some time has passed
We will get started after a while.
The job got easier after a while.
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Of course, all that excitement does get tiring after a while, and the dogs in side B eventually wind down for a brief nap.
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The subjects’ multifaceted backgrounds — from Arab organizers to Jewish students to community Rabbis — helps weave a multicultural fabric, which becomes, at first, a subtle de facto retort to claims of the protests’ inherent antisemitism, and after a while, a very explicit one.
—Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2025
But, after a while, even Alec isn’t quite sure where the act ends and his true identity begins.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
It’s become so widely accepted, with authorities seemingly unable or not willing to do anything, that after a while everyone has become numb to it all.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The subjects’ multifaceted backgrounds — from Arab organizers to Jewish students to community Rabbis — helps weave a multicultural fabric, which becomes, at first, a subtle de facto retort to claims of the protests’ inherent antisemitism, and after a while, a very explicit one.
—Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2025
But, after a while, even Alec isn’t quite sure where the act ends and his true identity begins.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
It’s become so widely accepted, with authorities seemingly unable or not willing to do anything, that after a while everyone has become numb to it all.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for after a while
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“After a while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/after%20a%20while. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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