one after the other

ADVERB
  1. following one another in quick succession
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How To Use one after the other In A Sentence

  • Mr. Red House made a speech after dinner, and said drink to the health of everybody, one after the other, in currant wine, which was done, beginning with Mrs. Bax and ending with H.O. Then he said – New Treasure Seekers
  • Though their eyes flashed their rage, the German officers raised their hands while a petty officer "frisked" them one after the other. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
  • Somerset administered two drams, one after the other, to the man with the chin-beard; who then, somewhat restored, began to confound himself in apologies for what he called his miserable nervousness, the result, he said, of a long course of dumb ague; and having taken leave with a hand that still sweated and trembled, he gingerly resumed his burthen and departed. The Dynamiter
  • When he did his first press day in Holland he had 26 interviews one after the other and afterwards he lay on his bed feeling that someone had pulled on a loose thread in his soul and continued to pull until it unravelled the whole sweater.
  • A good plot has unobtrusive elegance and grace; a bad one flattens everything in its path, character, atmosphere, setting, story itself, everything clunked down to a series of events happening one after the other. on 23 Feb 2009 at 4: 02 pm Abby Godwin Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Not losing the plot
  • Then a couple of incidents happened one after the other that changed my life.
  • Of course doing two loop-the-loops one after the other probably helped.
  • He grabbed a nearby stack of bandages and piled on one after the other until he felt there was enough to soak up the blood.
  • This week a small army of lame excuses have limped into the news, one after the other. Times, Sunday Times
  • It happened sometimes that he began to recite the Hours, but could not finish the Psalm which he had begun because so many came to him one after the other; and that he might not yield to weariness and refuse to open the door to him that knocked, he said to himself, "Once more for the sake of God," and this "once more" he did often repeat till "once" became "often," for in his brotherly love he did patiently overcome the hardships and unrestfulness of these interruptions. The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers.
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