single file

Example Sentences

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One by one, cattle fall behind him single file to consume a breakfast of ground corn and hay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

They walked in single file, many of them barefoot, carrying flowers, handing out bracelets and picking up new followers along the way.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

So, when exhausted and inexperienced climbers inevitably struggle there, everybody else waits in a single file, hanging onto a fixed rope, while the bottled oxygen they need to survive at that altitude slowly drains away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

Ships started to stretch, single file, as far across the sea as we could see.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

We walked single file through several rooms to my office.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg