Usage of "at a stretch"

In contact with each other or in proximity.

Usage of at a stretch in anglès

In the first days, Mausami slept-sixteen ,eighteen ,twentyhours at a stretch. 
 The passage 

He was still yawning; he had slept eighteen hours at a stretch. 
 L'Assommoir 

Now she merely sat by the fire for hours at a stretch. 
 The Golem and the Jinni 

His tongue can roll and rattle for twelve hours at a stretch. 
 A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago 

One subtle answer may be true, or even at a stretch, two. 
 Recollections of My Youth 

You don't even deceive yourself, not for three minutes at a stretch. 
 The Devil's Garden 

As far as references points go, we're at a stretch here. 
 The South African 

He was alert for as long as fifteen minutes at a stretch now. 
 Body work 

Besides, it would have meant eighteen hours in the air at a stretch. 
 Round the World in Seven Days 

We were doing no more than seven miles at a stretch. 
 The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill 

Often he rode in a doze for miles at a stretch. 
 Lonesome dove 

All he could manage was three hours at a stretch before passing out. 
 Wired 

It might go eighty miles at a stretch, but I won't guarantee more. 
 The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 

Sometimes he was away from home a fortnight at a stretch. 
 My Brilliant Career 

I can take two watches at a stretch, if it comes to that. 
 Hunger 

He would gallop as much as fifty versts at a stretch! 
 A Hero of Our Time 

Meanings of at a stretch in anglès