How to Use at a stretch in a Sentence
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For miles at a stretch the chimneys of the two power plants are visible against the horizon.
—Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
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The heatwaves lasted for anywhere from five to nearly 200 days at a stretch.
—Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019
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Both the Crimson Tide and the Volunteers have gone many years at a stretch without losing to the other.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 12 Oct. 2022
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But don't worry if your baby sleeps for only 30 minutes at a stretch or seems nowhere close to sleeping through the night.
—Parents Editors, Parents, 11 June 2023
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The terrain is so mountainous and remote that no roads interrupt the narrow ribbons of beach for up to 25 miles at a stretch.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
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My wife travels a lot for work, jetting off to cover fashion shows for several weeks at a stretch at least twice a year.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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But the recent shortage of home-care nurses has forced the couple, who live in Queens, to handle longer and longer periods on their own — as many as 36 hours at a stretch.
—New York Times, 4 June 2021
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But these stays are punctuated by time with her parents, a few weeks or months at a stretch, miserable.
—Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
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Instead, the company is asking that teams come into the office for one week at a stretch, usually once a month.
—Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
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To be blunt, the USS Ford has yet to demonstrate the ability to operate at sea—uninterrupted and without a port call—for more than 35 days at a stretch.
—Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
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The ability of self-driving car software to steer the vehicle within a highway lane is great, but being able to do so, even for thousands of miles at a stretch, isn’t enough.
—Matt McFarland, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
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The standard explanation is that the behavior developed as a response to their nomadic lifestyle on the Plains, which left no time to remain in one place for weeks at a stretch.
—Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
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To limit travel, minor-league schedules have been constructed around six-game series against one opponent at a stretch.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2021
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On the other side of Lyman, at a stretch of the road that passes through a thick pine forest, the twisted remains of seven Russian vehicles testified to a recent Ukrainian ambush.
—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2022
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Also, there is very little research on more extreme forms of fasting, such as plans that involve going without calories for several days at a stretch.
—Markham Heid, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
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Back at home, Megan continued to meditate, often for hours at a stretch, oscillating between lethargy and panic.
—David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
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Running these pumps for 10 hours at a stretch has revealed nylon fibers and other microplastics distributed throughout the water column below the South Atlantic subtropical gyre.
—New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
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The new device can record high-resolution videos for two days at a stretch, capturing blood vessels and hearts laboring during exercise or stomachs expanding and shrinking as test subjects gulp juice and then digest it.
—Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
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