one after another

idiom

: in a continuing series

The buses kept arriving, one after another.

One person after another walked out of the concert.

: each one in a continuing series

One after another of her friends got married and moved away.

Examples of one after another in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nine strong, the women moved together in a mighty formation, with one after another breaking out into the spotlight to showcase their twerking abilities. —

Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024 Pick up the balls at random and toss them one after another. —

Amanda MacMillan, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2015 Content by this author: Are Populists Unusually Prone to Political Blunders? After a swift and seemingly inevitable rise, some of Europe’s far-right populists have begun to falter, one after another. —

Lukas Kaelin, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024 Humanity has used its firepower to remake all its habitats, one after another. —

Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for one after another

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