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

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

Loss of foot traffic, coming after pandemic shutdowns, meant that surviving businesses folded one after another. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026

Joey Garrison As Republican senators on committee hammered Fauci one after another, Democrats eventually walked out. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Rhymes for one after another

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