When you search for a flight on Kayak, you're given an option of limiting your search to “nonstop.” Merriam-Webster gives definitions of “nonstop” as an adjective, adverb, and noun. The Associated Press's stylebook states that “Nonstop is one word,” and the New York Times agrees.
Is Nonstop a compound word?
The blue line represents the American English corpus while the red line is British English, and compared the two dialects together. There is therefore strong evidence to suggest that American English writers prefer the solid one word (nonstop) compare to its hyphenated version.
How do you use nonstop in a sentence?
Nonstop sentence example
- He chatted nonstop about the good old long-past summers. ...
- Donald Ryland kept up a nonstop conversation with his son and front seat companion, as they whipped along the highway.
