How to Use one after another in a Sentence
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Pick up the balls at random and toss them one after another.
—Amanda MacMillan, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2015
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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
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Instead of one after another, there have been days of sun to break up the rain.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
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In the last weeks of 2022, failed Broadway shows seemed to stack up one after another.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
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Eclipses may occur one after another if the Moon's nodes align with the Sun.
—Vahe Peroomian, CBS News, 5 July 2023
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Gordy signed Gaye in 1961, and the hits followed, one after another.
—Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
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These rubs are sometimes made one after another along a trail—this is called a rub line.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2022
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As grenades flew in one after another, Gurung tried to throw each one back.
—Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
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The calls were played one after another for more than an hour as prosecutors neared the end of their case in chief.
—Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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The keyboards, one after another, smiling at you with their white and black teeth.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2022
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But there are enough over-the-counter remedies to try one after another with nothing but the internet to guide you.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
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Their names were read out one after another, the coffins lowered slowly by thick rope into the ground.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
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The tests have popped up in different games throughout the year, one after another as the season has progressed.
—Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2023
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The stacking grows, one after another until there are nearly two dozen of them piled high.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
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Use this prompt to be hit with multiple crises, one after another, and formulate your plan on the spot.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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One week after viewing the tape, four teenagers die one after another.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2023
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Sometimes the rivers arrive one after another, crashing like so many waves against a shore.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
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The number of dominos that need to fall one after another to reach those lofty lengths is currently a bit beyond the horizon.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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On them, the names and photos of Black women and girls lost to violence appear one after another.
—Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2022
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Polley, 6 feet 8, kills his teammates across the street, sinking one after another from the perimeter in practices in the Werth Center.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 19 Feb. 2022
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The trains to Brussels, both express and local, had been cancelled one after another.
—Longreads, 11 Jan. 2024
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At a long table, vodka toasts were raised, one after another.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2022
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Then one after another, Gresham patrol cars sped toward the complex where the shooting happened, a blur of lights and sirens.
—Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2022
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Our sweet angels Graham and Cali crossed the rainbow bridge one after another in February and April 2021.
—cleveland, 7 June 2022
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The guards started calling the men’s names, one after another, and handing back their passports, along with the filtration receipts.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
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So overwhelming, the flowing of smart books one after another.
—James Brown, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2022
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Sanctions cut off the supply of parts and, one after another, Russian car plants stopped production.
—Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
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But to qualify as a second summer, those days need to appear one after another.
—Zachary Smith, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
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The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn’t do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.
—Joyce Kinkead, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2022
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Training occurs when multiple storms move over the same area one after another, similar to multiple train cars on the same track.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
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