on a stretch

English

Adverb

on a stretch (not comparable)

1. At a stretch, in one continuous period of time.
   • 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:

     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 news-telling sail of any sort ; […]

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