go down the line
Example Sentences
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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
It starts to get more messy as you go down the line.
From Slate • Dec. 14, 2020
“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
Each one of the Freedom Writers had to go down the line and read a sentence from a piece of paper.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
