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DAY AFTER DAY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
For an indefinite number of successive days
Synonyms:
day after day; day in day out
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Context examples:
Elinor wished that the same forbearance could have extended towards herself, but that was impossible, and she was obliged to listen day after day to the indignation of them all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Day after day this work went on; by every evening a fortune had been stowed aboard, but there was another fortune waiting for the morrow; and all this time we heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And there all day, and day after day, there was bustle and crowding and labor, while the great ships loaded up, and one after the other spread their white pinions and darted off to the open sea, amid the clash of cymbals and rolling of drums and lusty shouts of those who went and of those who waited.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was astonished when a fortnight passed without reply; but when two months wore away, and day after day the post arrived and brought nothing for me, I fell a prey to the keenest anxiety.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Day after day, week after week, month after month, I was coldly neglected.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He watched the youthful apparition of himself, day after day, hurrying from school to the Enquirer alley.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Elinor flattered herself that some one of their connections in London would write to them to announce the event, and give farther particulars,—but day after day passed off, and brought no letter, no tidings.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was a long fight between my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with coppers.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For weeks at a time they would hold on steadily, day after day; and for weeks upon end they would camp, here and there, the dogs loafing and the men burning holes through frozen muck and gravel and washing countless pans of dirt by the heat of the fire.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
