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 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 Four wide receivers were taken in the draft’s first round in 2023 — one after another from picks 20 to 23. —

Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 There is boundless potential available as the Moon in your determined 10th house trines Saturn in your 6th House of Daily Work, reinforcing your efforts to plow through tasks one after another, hardly breaking a sweat. —

Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for one after another

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