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Sentence Examples And on and on he goes like that for two pages of second hand factoids and observations that never rise above the pseudo-intellectual. The train rattled on and on towards doom as my backside cramped itself on the seat. That poem is about picking blackberries, reaching on and on, with your hands all scrabbed. The debate over the reform of the rite of the Mass following the Second Vatican Council goes on and on. They marched on and on, down what seemed to be an endless maze of hallways and side passages. And so the story goes, on and on, a catalogue of mutually exclusive and contradictory topic sentences about a pseudo-mythical girlfriend. However, some dreams are nightmares and when you're having a nightmare they seem to go on and on and on. So let the pundits blab on and on about the flavonols and the serotonin production and the endorphins released while eating it. Instead he just made some intelligent statements, and let his boss blabber on and on repeating himself endlessly. Nothing happens for an hour and a half, it just meanders on and on, the storyline diverges into two equally blah-blah plotlines. He sighed heavily, listening to his father's monotone voice drone on and on about what he needed to do. He stands there, squinting his eyes and pursing his lips, going on and on with such blatant lies. Joey was boredly twiddling his thumbs at the table, and Adie was blabbering on and on to herself in her booster seat. She took the phone and talked on and on without holding the steering wheel. This time, the sentences run on and on together, but the spaces between the words have now disappeared along with the punctuation. Next she would burst into a fit of sobbing, wailing on and on about how good she had been to him. He sat down with James in his lap, listening to the little boy babble on and on. The UN negotiations drag on and on as the international community weakens and loses interest. But too many suspensions cases have dragged on and on, wasting large sums of taxpayers' money. I tried to make a big show of looking away from the screen till it was over, but the scene went on and on. Show More Sentences On and on and on they marched, until finally there came a stream of carts and wagons carrying supplies and parts of instruments of siege. The BW Party is heartily sick of pensioners going on and on about how the country owes them and how hard up they are. When the headmaster attempted to take the money, the speaker moved it just beyond grasp while he orated on and on and on. Perhaps he went on and on to her about a previous girlfriend and she decided enough was enough! I could go on and on and on to describe the outpouring of support for the families that have been impacted by this horrific tragedy. She pattered on and on as we walked out the ramp to the airplane and were seated in the last row of the First Class section. We were getting dressed in our cabin when we heard Peggy starting to laugh next door and she went on and on, peal after peal. Also, check out the group of free songs here, to get some idea what I am going on and on about. The graphic violence is fittingly shocking at first, but as it goes on and on, it becomes almost comical. As a consequence story-writers are forced to contrive elaborate plots that just go on and on and on. I can go on and on about our numerous sins, the way we flout laws or conventions or acceptable behaviour without even thinking about it. Elected officials come and go, but the military potentates, policies and budgets go on and on. The road seemed to go on and on, climbing and twisting, between heavily forested hills. She devoured books and pamphlets on rhetoric, art, criminology, theology, psychology, philosophy, the list could go on and on. We walked on and on, yet I felt no weariness, just a little discomfort as the filth that clung to me began to harden into a crust. So, I'm not going to stop prating on and on about my favorite sport, but I won't do it nearly as much. His breath came in short gasps as he walked on and on, driven by an insane energy, till he finally reached the riverside. I could go on and on about the degree of deception, the elaborateness of the country's program to maintain its weapons capabilities. I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other species we spotted yesterday. I'll ramble on and on until I find some enlightenment, or a new vantage point to see the arguments. Show More Sentences We went on and on for another hour and once again, right on time, Nurse Patz entered the room to excuse my father and send Maggie in. As Mr Brown droned on and on, delivering possibly the dullest speech of his life, she fell asleep. The possibilities go on and on if you start thinking about having an intelligent agent that keeps track of your net wanderings. The rest of the time Vaughn simply gibbers on and on, jaw-jawing and wise-cracking. For some reason he ranted on and on about the fact that they'd been promised a move to new offices, and it wouldn't happen. As she listened to Bruce go on and on about his uncle, he sounded wimpier and wimpier. Underworld yammers on and on about bloodlines and supernatural compost when it should be kicking it up a notch in the action department. I don't have cable, so I won't be cheating to see what the highly-paid yammerers are going on and on about. Unlike some other girls, Karen never rambles on and on about lab results for some complicated experiment she's conducting. I could go on and on, but I suppose it would be better for my blood pressure to go and have a lie-down under some nice, soothing, wet newspaper. We will fight on and on and only stop once the final contract is signed and sealed. That hasn't stopped you going on and on and on, arguing over a single word. But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates. He was going on and on in his speech about safety at reasonable cost. I tucked in, and with a sideways glance through the bare low hedge, pushed on and on and tried to be optimistic about a ten-degree ribbon of pink sky. As the professor droned on and on in the overheated lecture hall, Kim was overcome with such hebetude that she had to fight to keep her eyes open. The cities have great swathes of villa land suburbia, quiet lanes often tree lined stretching namelessly on and on until they melt into unfinished desert building sites. They had begged, pleaded, droned on and on until in the end I gave in. It went on and on and on, lulling, then thundering down again. It was very relaxing to watch the boats go by with their night lanterns on and on occasion feel the nibble from the fishing rod hoping you would catch the big one. Show More Sentences The gasbags were going on and on about how silly it was for him to get angry about a purported message in their new puppet movie in which they tell young people not to vote. He droned on and on about some friend of his sister's who he saw last Christmas and who looked exactly the same after ten years of not seeing her. Instrumentation includes greats such as David Grier on flat-top guitar, Matt Flinner on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle and the list goes on and on. As I listened to the man ramble on and on, I envisioned myself on a beach, the waves rolling toward my bare body sprawled out on the soft, powdery sand. But then in his post-victory remarks, the candidate went on and on and on, boringly, without the lift and eloquence and fluency of even his opponent. It's deep, fluid and rich, yet with poise and an exotic melange of fruit, spice and rose petal flavours that linger on and on well after you swallow. Lincoln Davis and John Barrow and larry Kissell and Travis Childers and on and on it went. During one hot summer, Lisa kept on and on about wanting to go swimming. We have weekly Monday meetings, but every day is different, from attending meetings to giving design directions, on and on. I realize now that I spoke to her in paragraphs, babbling on and on, while she talked sparingly but concisely. As my mom drove me home, after an embarrassing shower of kisses at the bus station, she chattered on and on about how boring her life was without me. But the reality is that the juggernaut just keeps rolling on and on. And an almost identical declaration has been made in turn by the Symbolists, by Italian and Russian Futurists, by German Expressionists, and so on and on. He rambled on and on about how different brands compared to others. The trauma just goes on and on and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity. We've all complained about creeping infotainment, media concentration, the lack of serious investigative TV, the tabloid nature of the magazine shows and on and on. Now and again, someone sees through the decorative math, but the semipro philosophizing just goes on and on. The letter went on and on, page after page, plaudit after plaudit. And one could go on and on recounting what flash tourist consultants have thought up as wizard, rabbits-out-of-hats schemes to bring in the visitors. Show More Sentences The interview dragged on and on, long after I was sure I wouldn't get the job. As a matter of fact, famous sayings are always being misattributed, borrowed and they live on and on. He walked on and on through illlit streets, fearing to stand still for a moment lest it might seem that he held back from what awaited him. Williams getting a spray tan, in a scene which goes on and on, is possibly the unfunniest thing ever. Just after four weeks, another titi monkey showed the same symptoms and it went on and on with other monkeys. It has taken whitetail deer, mule deer, aoudad, waterbuck, impala, black buck, zebra, gemsbok, and on and on all with 1-shot kills. Ealstan's master of herblore droned on and on about the mystical properties of plants. Your man is talking away but it's not dramatically correct to have him just jawing on and on, when there's no movement. Like many postflood sights, the specter of Neck Wound dragged on and on. He went on and on until I finally told him to put a sock in it. And the rhapsodization by European intellectuals went on and on. But over what transphenomenal imperfections does the immortal soul continue to triumph on and on and on? Is Kant also postulating transphenomenal inclinations? And life goes on and on anon, and death goes on, world without end. Lowell recovered its own squib kick to retake possession, and this needed just three plays to go 44 yards for another touchdown, and on and on it went. Examples from Classical Literature In this way the barking deer leads the tiger on and on through the jungle from bush to bush. They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox. The Republic has marched on and on, and its step has exalted freedom and humanity. Girlie's second great-aunt stayed too, upon urging, and they all talked on and on. After leaving the vley where the marabou were, we rode on and on across the shadeless, waterless, sun-baked plain. So nicknack was left to nibble the grass, while the Curlytops wandered on and on. And so the policing of the western country from Fort Gibson went on and on. So on and on and on he went, till at last arriving at red bay he found his schooner at anchor calmly fishing. He felt rather as the hero in the fairy-tale must have felt when he had to go on and on without looking round. For a race which has the infinite as its goal the word must be on and on. And so it went on and on, till even the Zulus were weary of war and the sharpest assegais grew blunt. The Indian summer had dreamed on and on, and then, suddenly, with the sharpness of bugles, winter came. As the general's voice droned on and on, whitlow barely listened. They went on and on as if they traveled a shoreless sea in a steady wind. So I worked on and on, with spurts of fury and periods of lagging. My temper rose, by steady and sure degrees, and as I pawed on and on, I fell to making vicious comments under my breath. Oh, it goes on and on, delving more deeply into dreadfulness than you might have thought possible. The party must push on and on to reach the dept where food awaited them. She never stirred, but slept on and on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep. The forewoman and under-forewoman are sisters, and stay on and on. Show More Sentences Now this linesman carried on and on and on and would not have stopped if Joey Barton had got the ball, gone past a few players and whacked it in the far post. I slunk on and on, shivering with cold, through the uproarious streets. But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house. She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end. Find more words! 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