on and on

Example Sentences

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It went on and on for, I’m not kidding, six hours or more.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

Don’t forget Canada’s zombie wildfires, the Texas floods, the late autumn Southwest heat waves, the calving Doomsday glacier and on and on.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

“He went on and on about how it wasn’t how he remembered it, and that it had changed,” Jackson recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

"It'll keep going on and on as far as I can keep going. I'm going to take this to the top, hopefully," she says with a laugh.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

“That’s two squared times three squared times ten. And there are three hundred sixty degrees in a circle. And the line that makes a circle goes on and on and on, without any end.”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix