go down the line

Example Sentences

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But then let’s go down the line, and I’m counting the emergency cases.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2021

Of course, holding that idea in my mind I could start with William Shakespeare, and then go down the line of playwrights I’m drawn to.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2021

“As you go down the line, you get to people who are essentially normal, have no co-morbidities and are not elderly,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN.

From The Verge • Nov. 30, 2020

"The future," Wallace proposed, "belongs to those who go down the line unswervingly for the liberal principles of both political democracy and economic democracy regardless of race, color or religion."

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2020

The García girls go down the line, hugging and kissing each of us.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez