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on a stretch

on a stretch adverb: at a stretch, in one continuous period of time.

Adverb

on a stretch (not comparable)

  1. At a stretch, in one continuous period of time.
    • For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers ; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 41, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 196

Questions about on a stretch

What does on a stretch mean?
On a stretch means at a stretch, in one continuous period of time.
What part of speech is on a stretch?
On a stretch is an adverb.

Words near on a stretch in the dictionary

  1. on a roll
  2. on a shoestring
  3. on a silver platter
  4. on a sixpence
  5. on a stick
  6. on a stretch
  7. on a string
  8. on a sudden
  9. on a tear
  10. on a tight leash
  11. on a time

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