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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
• The heatwaves lasted for anywhere from five to nearly 200 days at a stretch.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019
• Both the Crimson Tide and the Volunteers have gone many years at a stretch without losing to the other.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024