ALL THE TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all the time mean? 

• ALL THE TIME (adverb)
  The adverb ALL THE TIME has 1 sense:

1. without respite

  Familiarity information: ALL THE TIME used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL THE TIME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without respite

Synonyms:

all the time; day in and day out

Context example:

he plays chess day in and day out

 Context examples 

“I knew you were here all the time. You can’t fool my ears.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She sat still all the time—so still as one dead; and she grew whiter and ever whiter till the snow was not more pale; and no word she said.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And there was my aunt, all the time I was dressing, preaching and talking away just as if she was reading a sermon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

On the other hand, he knew all the time that the chamber was empty.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This is a natural rhythm—things are not always equal all the time, but rather over time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And all the time, though he did not look, he could hear her snarling just one leap behind.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

At last it popped into Catherine’s head that it was the door itself that was so heavy all the time: so she whispered, “Frederick, I must throw the door down soon.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He would keep his mind upon it all the time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Do you tell me that during these long ten weeks of agony the stolen papers were within the very room with me all the time?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was my bed all the time I staid with those people, though made more convenient by degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)