on end

1. Continuously, without interruption, as in It's been raining for days on end. This term, which might just as well be put “seemingly without end,” dates from about 1300.

Example Sentences

“Defendants are now warehousing people at Broadview for days on end,” the lawsuit said.

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That lethargy, meteorologists warn, could be catastrophic as it means that a hurricane can bring rain to a single location for days on end, aggravating flooding.

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Short-term shutdowns have little economic effect — but not paying hundreds of thousands of workers for weeks on end, or even a month or more, is going to.

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Her husband disappears for weeks on end, and Allen, or the character she is portraying, reluctantly accepts the conditions of an open marriage.

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I spent hours on end replaying the worst moments in my head.

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