one after another
idiom
1
: in a continuing series
The buses kept arriving, one after another.
One person after another walked out of the concert.
2
: each one in a continuing series
One after another of her friends got married and moved away.
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In one Upper East Side neighborhood known for pristine sidewalks, residents said they were annoyed by the sight of piles of trash bags one after another.
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Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
The triad moves across the grey room in a dizzying chain of matching pirouettes, drawing a slow circle one after another as arpeggiating harp fills the bare space with sound.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
But the statements kept coming, one after another, all through the weekend and into yesterday.
—Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
And, one after another, her children followed the same path of completing one or two years of college before dropping out and launching families of their own.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
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Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
The triad moves across the grey room in a dizzying chain of matching pirouettes, drawing a slow circle one after another as arpeggiating harp fills the bare space with sound.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
But the statements kept coming, one after another, all through the weekend and into yesterday.
—Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
And, one after another, her children followed the same path of completing one or two years of college before dropping out and launching families of their own.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for one after another
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“One after another.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20after%20another. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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