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ALL THE TIME
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without respite
Example:
he plays chess day in and day out
Synonyms:
all the time; day in and day out
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Context examples:
“Look here, Lestrade,” said he, “has that constable in the passage been in charge of the place all the time?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He drew out a lens and lay down upon his waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to himself than to us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Tom” had never had me out of his thoughts, she really believed, all the time I had been away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You said the other day you thought we were a deal happier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It seems that the humans hold one side of this plateau—over yonder, where you saw the caves—and the ape-men hold this side, and there is bloody war between them all the time.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She headed nearly due south, yawing, of course, all the time.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Here was this irreproachable Englishman ready to swear in any court of law that the accused was in the house all the time.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could for they were as wild as harpies.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at Hartfield.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She came in with a smile, smiled all the time of her visit, except when she laughed, and smiled when she went away.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
