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

“I didn’t want to go down the line somewhere and say, ‘What if,’ ” he says.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2018

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