MEANWHILE in a Sentence

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For MEANWHILE, below is one of 112 sentences:
But meanwhile things were not going over harmoniously at Maryino, and poor Nikolai Petrovitch was having a bad time of it.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEANWHILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
meanwhile
 ad.  at the same time but in another place
 ad.  during the intervening time
Classic Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  It was long before the clouds had discharged their burden, and, meanwhile, the dust on the road became kneaded into mire, and the horses' task of pulling the britchka heavier and heavier.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  This lasted for a couple of minutes, and, meanwhile, the aquiline-nosed Bagration gazed from the wall as though much interested in the bargaining.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
3  Beside himself with rage, he prepared to give Selifan the wigging of his life, and, meanwhile, waited impatiently to hear what the delinquent had got to say in his defence.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  But, meanwhile, OTHER quarters of the town saw arise, for each member of the Commission, a handsome house of the NON-official style of architecture.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  Chichikov looked round, and perceived that, in the meanwhile, the barin had dressed himself and overtaken the carriage.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
6  'The day before yesterday I saw him reading Pushkin,' Bazarov was continuing meanwhile.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Aristocracy, Liberalism, progress, principles,' Bazarov was saying meanwhile; 'if you think of it, what a lot of foreign.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Bazarov meanwhile was losing and losing.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  I will run over there at once, and make arrangements; and you, Timofeitch, meanwhile bring in their things.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  But meanwhile things were not going over harmoniously at Maryino, and poor Nikolai Petrovitch was having a bad time of it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  and meanwhile there was in Nikolai Petrovitch's house one creature to whom, if he did not open his heart, he at least was glad to talk.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  First of all, you must get well, and meanwhile there's plenty of time.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  But meanwhile I will not take a hen-house for a mansion.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: X
14  He had meanwhile settled himself at his table, put on his spectacles and taken up some sewing.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
15  I'd rather be packing in the meanwhile so as to lose no time.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
Example Sentence:
1  Hazards like human waste, meanwhile, will simply decay in the soil.