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at one sitting

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at/in one sitting
if you do something at one sitting, you do it during one period of time without stopping I read the whole book in one sitting.
See also: one, sitting

at one sitting also in one sitting
during a short period of time A month's supply of that drug taken at one sitting would kill you. I read the book in one sitting and couldn't get to sleep after I finished it.
See also: one, sitting


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Then twelve roasted oxen and twelve tons of bread were brought alongside of the ship, and at one sitting the glutton had devoured it all.
It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting.
How many more cups of tea shall I drink to-night at one sitting, than Gruff and Tackleton ever took in four, I wonder
 
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