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Meaning of on a stretch | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

At a stretch, in one continuous period of time.

not-comparable

Examples

“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 ;[…]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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