days on end
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: several or many days in a row
Sometimes they didn't speak to each other for days on end.
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For people with air-conditioning, window units and central air will be humming for days on end.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Much like Ventura, Jane said she was also plied with drugs to keep her awake performing degrading acts, sometimes for days on end.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
But researchers have only recently started to explore at a fundamental level how migratory birds get the energy required to keep themselves aloft for days on end without eating.
—Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2025
Instead of merely making a tent that's as light as possible at the cost of comfort, Durston understands that backpackers and mountaineers will be living in their tent night after night and might very well be holed up for days on end, waiting out dangerous weather and conditions.
—New Atlas, 6 May 2025
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Much like Ventura, Jane said she was also plied with drugs to keep her awake performing degrading acts, sometimes for days on end.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
But researchers have only recently started to explore at a fundamental level how migratory birds get the energy required to keep themselves aloft for days on end without eating.
—Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2025
Instead of merely making a tent that's as light as possible at the cost of comfort, Durston understands that backpackers and mountaineers will be living in their tent night after night and might very well be holed up for days on end, waiting out dangerous weather and conditions.
—New Atlas, 6 May 2025
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“Days on end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/days%20on%20end. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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