on a stretch

adverb

At a stretch, in one continuous period of time.

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adverbon a stretch (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAt a stretch, in one continuous period of time.
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    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 ;[…]

    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

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on a stretch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20a%20stretch

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“on a stretch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20a%20stretch. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “on a stretch,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20a%20stretch.

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