days on end
idiom
: several or many days in a row
Sometimes they didn't speak to each other for days on end.
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Literally spent days on end just doing calligraphy because her mom kept coming up with different things that HAD to be in calligraphy to match.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
His employees were logging the same hours at the same modest lab in the mountains, starting at 5 a.m. and sleeping there for days on end.
—Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Going Beyond Belgrade Although the city is thrumming with enough energy to keep you entertained for days on end, Serbia is bigger than Belgrade, and the rest of the country deserves attention as well.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
Consider doing the Dakar Rally, in a self-driving car, at full throttle, day and night, for days on end.
—George Allen, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
His employees were logging the same hours at the same modest lab in the mountains, starting at 5 a.m. and sleeping there for days on end.
—Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Going Beyond Belgrade Although the city is thrumming with enough energy to keep you entertained for days on end, Serbia is bigger than Belgrade, and the rest of the country deserves attention as well.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
Consider doing the Dakar Rally, in a self-driving car, at full throttle, day and night, for days on end.
—George Allen, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Days on end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/days%20on%20end. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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