How to Use one after another in a Sentence

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  • Three elk walked past the crosshairs, one after another, but there was no sign of antlers.
    Fred C. Mercer, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Instead of one after another, there have been days of sun to break up the rain.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • These rubs are sometimes made one after another along a trail—this is called a rub line.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The play’s strongest scenes come as a pair, one after another, at its end.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Freya swims under, over, and along the waves, one after another.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The bands played three separate sets of three to four songs each, one after another.
    Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025
  • As grenades flew in one after another, Gurung tried to throw each one back.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The keyboards, one after another, smiling at you with their white and black teeth.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2022
  • One week after viewing the tape, four teenagers die one after another.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2023
  • At a long table, vodka toasts were raised, one after another.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The stacking grows, one after another until there are nearly two dozen of them piled high.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Their names were read out one after another, the coffins lowered slowly by thick rope into the ground.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The calls were played one after another for more than an hour as prosecutors neared the end of their case in chief.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes the rivers arrive one after another, crashing like so many waves against a shore.
    Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Eclipses may occur one after another if the Moon's nodes align with the Sun.
    Vahe Peroomian, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • The police cars just kept coming, one after another.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The funerals came one after another, a black cascade of grief.
    MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Use this prompt to be hit with multiple crises, one after another, and formulate your plan on the spot.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • At that point, out of the vast and silent ether, messages will come glowing into your inbox one after another.
    Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The castles burnt out one after another amid the joyous cries of the multitude.
    Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • Once the first-place finishes stop coming one after another, the totals get stuck in place.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
  • But there are enough over-the-counter remedies to try one after another with nothing but the internet to guide you.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
  • To destroy the site, an attack would have to come in waves, with bombers releasing one after another down the same hole.
    Samuel Granados, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • The familiar clips roll in, one after another, and are an ode to all things Michigan.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • So overwhelming, the flowing of smart books one after another.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2022
  • But to qualify as a second summer, those days need to appear one after another.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The tests have popped up in different games throughout the year, one after another as the season has progressed.
    Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In the last weeks of 2022, failed Broadway shows seemed to stack up one after another.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Adidas has been knocking out stellar kicks one after another, and these are no exception.
    Bianca Rodriguez, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • Today, large-scale global shocks such as war, pandemic, and drought seem to be coming one after another or even at the same time.
    Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2022

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