the whole/entire way

noun

: throughout the entire journey

He talked the whole/entire way home.

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What’s a Good Name (Juan Hernandez), the only filly in the field, was second the entire way. — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025 Wohler read it the whole way and easily picked it off. — James Boyd, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2025 All the Current has to do is match Orlando’s record the whole way through, and the team would clinch the NWSL Shield — the trophy for the best record in the regular season — with two games left to play. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2025 The group of them, at least 10 or 15, talked the entire way through, with their backs turned toward the band, drinks in hand, and a certain level of annoyance for having to hear a bunch of loud, reverb-rich rock music during the middle of their night on the town. — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2025 In slide four of this next GIF, Joao Pedro runs off Nico Gonzalez, while in slide six Gundogan is level with his man but is not able to track him the whole way back to the City penalty area. — Thom Harris, New York Times, 24 July 2025 Fun was the imperative for us the whole way through. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 July 2025 Laughing the entire way, the employee couldn't believe what just happened. — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025 But, more broadly, these failures didn’t change your very hawkish outlook on foreign policy in the Middle East and just the whole way America conducts foreign policy, right? — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 26 June 2025

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