one after another
Example Sentences
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"Nadia was delightful. She was charming company… And she worked very hard attending flight schools to get her certificates, one after another… These are not easy accomplishments."
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Managers hired to run the perfectly designed factory that Jobs was constructing couldn’t respond to the changes quickly enough, so they were fired, one after another.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
He sat down at the counter, and unhoused neighbors came in one after another.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
Rather, they could have developed one after another as conditions around the star changed.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026
I am calm, she thought, but so very cold; the noise is only a kind of banging on the doors, one after another; is this what I was so afraid about?
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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