Practicing Success
Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. He runs for two hours at a stretch to build his stamina. |
painfully easily comfortably continuously |
continuously |
The answer is >!continuously.!< The idiom "at a stretch" means without stopping. In the sentence, "He runs for two hours at a stretch to build his stamina," it means that he runs for two hours without stopping. This is because he is trying to build his stamina, which is the ability to do something for a long time without getting tired. The other options are not correct.
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