How to Use one by one in a Sentence

one by one

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• The good players went one by one by one.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
• For about half of those, the pills have to be counted out one by one.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Make a list of your favorite movies and tick them off the list one by one.
  — Essence, 4 Nov. 2025
• Each salmon must be untangled from the net one by one.
  — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Athletes coming up to me, one by one.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• Make a list of your most vital tasks, then tackle them one by one.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2026
• Rick throws open the cage doors one by one, coaxing his brethren to freedom.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
• Yeomans’s team pursued them one by one, but each proved to be a dead end.
  — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
• The episode revealed the Top 14 one by one.
  — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2026
• Beneath me, one by one, logs are added to a nest of kindling in the hearth.
  — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• Now, the truth of all their stories — one by one — will begin to be told.
  — ProPublica, 23 July 2025
• Add more napkin flowers, one by one, and brush the top of each with glue.
  — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 14 Mar. 2026
• Hands started to pile on top of the red button—one by one, then all at once.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
• The pigeons returned, one by one.
  — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2025
• So the counselors told them to climb out of the window, one by one, the twins said.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
• Other buildings would be added on a one by one basis to spread out the costs.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• Notably, one by one, each of them said goodbye to the cameras.
  — Sydni Ellis, People.com, 23 July 2025
• The dolls appear, one by one, coated in sand and muck and seaweed.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The game involves guessing words that are acted out one by one to form a phrase.
  — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• Agents in tactical gear came searching through the horse stalls, one by one.
  — Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
• Don't waste time making all of your guests' favorite cocktails one by one.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2024
• On their old bus lines, passengers paid one by one at the front entrance of the bus.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
• Since the grafts are taken one by one, there are no visible marks in the donor area.
  — Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Some of the old timers launch one by one, and Steve and I are the last ones to launch.
  — Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
• The ladies walked out of a limo one by one with their best pickup line to grab his attention.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2025
• Neighbors were shocked when all the dogs were pulled out one by one and placed in dog carriers.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
• And the crew members start to get picked off one by one, always after the sun has gone down.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• Once safely on board, the side hatch was opened and the astronauts were helped out one by one.
  — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
• Once safely on board, the side hatch was opened and the astronauts were helped out, one by one.
  — Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
• Place sprouts into the feed tube one by one, and use the food pusher to press them into the blade.
  — Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025