on a stretch
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
At a stretch, in one continuous period of time.
Example Sentences
- "For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers ; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort ;[…]"