days on end
idiom
: several or many days in a row
Sometimes they didn't speak to each other for days on end.
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Mehdiyev sought to track the journalist, waiting outside her Flatbush, Brooklyn, home with an assault rifle for days on end in July 2022.
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Molly Crane Newman, Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2025
And so Dinkins found himself on the defensive for days on end.
—Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
The last thing a compassionate society wants to see while families' grief is on public display and rescue workers go days on end without sleep is someone cranking out bumper-stickers or blasting out fundraising emails designed to gain a partisan edge.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 17 July 2025
What event could possibly justify closing a major highway for days on end?
—Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2025
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Molly Crane Newman, Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2025
And so Dinkins found himself on the defensive for days on end.
—Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
The last thing a compassionate society wants to see while families' grief is on public display and rescue workers go days on end without sleep is someone cranking out bumper-stickers or blasting out fundraising emails designed to gain a partisan edge.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 17 July 2025
What event could possibly justify closing a major highway for days on end?
—Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2025
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“Days on end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/days%20on%20end. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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