on end

Definition

without interruption, without stopping, continuously

Example Sentences

• "These batteries last for hours on end."
• "The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end."
• "How silent, on the other hand, lie all Cotton-trades and such like; not a steeple-chimney yet got on end from sea to sea!"