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Definition of "one after the other" []

  • One by one (of a person or thing) (adverb)

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Use "one after the other" in a sentence
  • "And then, as if a series of fusion sparklers had ignited one after the other across the bridge, Dax, Bashir, and Worf—"
  • "We know how in the ticquer one tic movement may disappear only to give way to another, or one after the other an increased number of tic movements and also of definite compensatory movements not of a tic nature but of the nature of antagonistic gestures and stratagems may make their appearance."
  • "For example, A.N. Wilson, usually a shrewd and analytical commentator, wrote the following two sentences one after the other without apparently noticing the contradiction between them:"