one by one

phrase

: separately in a series : one at a time : first one and then another one, etc.

I solved the problems one by one.

The performers took the stage one by one.

Examples of one by one in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The familiar faces arrived one by one, climbing the staircase into The Pool on Thursday evening as the Kering Foundation’s fifth annual Caring for Women Dinner got underway. — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026

Wednesday morning, volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got to work placing each and every flag one by one. — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Kawarabayashi and Thorup, soon joined by Thomassen and Bojan Mohar of Simon Fraser University, wanted to identify an unavoidable set of configurations that could be reduced in parallel, rather than one by one. — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

Huge chunks of flaming fuselage fell across a six-lane thoroughfare, bursting into fireballs one by one. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for one by one

• anyone
• everyone
• megaton
• overdone
• overrun
• begun
• grandson
• gudrun
• handgun
• homespun
• outdone
• outrun