one after another

phrase

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.

Examples of one after another in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The next inning, Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Andy Pages singled one after another for a second run. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Since the first attack July 18 in Elektrostal, just east of Moscow, and in the southwestern Tambov region, Wildberries depots burned one after another in massive fires that flooded social media. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Now, the leading AI labs are reporting actual incidents involving models breaching or escaping their testing environments, one after another in just a few weeks. — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

And further back than that—the child my mother still describes, devouring books one after another, genre irrelevant. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for one after another

• brother
• mother
• nother
• other
• smother
• souther
• godmother
• grandmother
• stepbrother
• stepmother