end to end
Idioms-
In a row with the ends touching. For example, The logs were laid end to end . [Mid-1800s]
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from end to end . Throughout the length of something, as in We hiked the Appalachian Trail from end to end . [First half of 1600s]
Example Sentences
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He guides groups of walkers along the trail from end to end.
From BBC
Then as our eyes adjusted to the gloom we saw that there were no individual beds at all, but great square piers stacked three high, and wedged side by side, and end to end with only an occasional narrow aisle slicing through.
From Literature
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My friend Joseph Lee has his painting studio on the second floor of a strip mall plaza, his half-squeezed tubes of paint line the walls from end to end.
From Los Angeles Times
As it settled onto the sidewalk for its last gasp, I watched the fissure crawl along the glass until my poor phone was split end to end, with a spiderweb of doom on the top right corner.
From Literature
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The past was this gigantic domino game, with a billion moments all stacked end to end, and if you took just one domino out, or moved it an inch to the right or left, the whole thing came crashing down.
From Literature
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