at a stretch

idiom

: at one time without stopping
She can sit and read for hours at a stretch.

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For one thing, and crucially: most gooners do not regularly masturbate for eight to twelve hours at a stretch, as I’d initially been led to believe. Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 If your home doesn’t have a space that stays dark for at least 12 hours at a stretch, cover your Christmas cactus with a thick blanket daily to extend the dark period as needed to spur flower formation. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025 Lately, those temperatures have been unusually high, crossing 1.5° C above pre-industrial conditions for the first time and remaining elevated for months at a stretch. ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025 At least 15 miles wide—and sometimes much wider—at its American end, this verdant freeway for migrating mammals lasted thousands of years at a stretch. Michael Ray Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for at a stretch

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“At a stretch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20a%20stretch. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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