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.

Examples of one after another in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Instead of all planets forming at roughly the same time, this model suggests that planets form one after another. —Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Feb. 2026

While the snow blanketed the late-evening sky deep in the Italian Alps, and one after another, the best female snowboarders on the planet kept slipping, skidding and crashing out, Chloe Kim wrestled with her shot at history. —Zak Keefer, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026

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. —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

Rhymes for one after another

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