no end in sight

idiom

—used to say that the point at which something will be finished is not known

There is no end in sight to this heat wave.

Prices continue to go up with no end in sight.

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The strike, which saw some 33,000 workers walk off the job on Sept. 13, has entered its fourth week with no end in sight. —

Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024 The strike, which saw some 33,000 workers walk off the job on Sept. 13, is now in its fourth week, with no end in sight. —

Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2024 But while Israel has managed to recuperate militarily, its strategic situation is dire: The IDF is fighting on seven different fronts, with no end in sight. —

Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024 The county has also been contending with the fallout of the several disaster declarations that the federal government had issued in recent years, leaving the matter of finding funding to repair the slide up for debate and leaving residents worried there was no end in sight for the fractured road. —

Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 6 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for no end in sight

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