While in a sentence as a noun

The money is good while it's coming in and you get to make your own hours.

My father recently died and while things like these may trigger some slight pain, that's just life.

It's a genuine problem and has been growing gradually worse for a while.

Some people noticed, while others in the class also felt like you hated them for no apparent reason.

Reminds me, I should write my own story of how I made $190 on the App Store while exercising 15 years of coding experience.

You don't have to be scared: this is routine and, while it doesn't feel like it, you're actually in very good position, both absolutely and relative to many other people.

I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country.

"I read a great article a while back that I unfortunately can't find now, but it talked about a CEO who thought he was having a casual "hey, I'm interested in developing my skills, can you mentor me a bit?

Ortiz today: and they recognized that his conduct while a violation of the law did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy ****, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack".At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram.

While definitions

noun

a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

See also: piece spell patch