[
US
/ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
]
[ UK /nˌɒnstˈɒp/ ]
[ UK /nˌɒnstˈɒp/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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at all times
around-the-clock nursing care -
(of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops
a nonstop flight to Atlanta
NOUN
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a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination
how many nonstops are there to Dallas?
ADVERB
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without stopping
we are flying nonstop form New York to Tokyo
How To Use nonstop In A Sentence
- There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds. The Fiddler in the Subway
- These small, bushy plants literally bloom nonstop with an extraordinary abundance of petite flowers.
- Our flight-deck crew had been working nonstop in support of real-world operations and day-night training evolutions.
- The challenge now is the marathon of a 14-mile nonstop stretch of waves and holes that slithers through the curvilinear canyon like a snake on crack.
- It also helped that I play a lot of video games in a similar effort to infuse my life with nonstop action.
- The dharma wheel is representing the teaching of nonstop turning.
- Out in the Atlantic, vast Japanese factory ships work nonstop, using modern sonar detection to spot the tuna shoals they sweep the ocean clean of fish.
- A mockingbird sang nonstop, sometimes making up his own phrases, sometimes mimicking a bluebird, sometimes mimicking a titmouse.
- This time I lucked into a nonstop flight that deposited me in the Rockies early enough to get a four-hour nap, so alas I really had nothing to blame my behavior on, except perhaps for my public-school education.
- They launched ‘Revuedeville’ - a nonstop round of showgirls, variety acts and comedians - and when other theatres copied them she hit on the idea of nudity.