Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. idiomatic Individually in succession; one at a time.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. one piece at a time
- adv. in single file
- adv. apart from others
Examples
“They are always best fully ripened after the first frost, then posted one by one down the gullet of a bottle of cheap supermarket gin with added sugar, as geese are forcefed for pt in the Dordogne.”
“There were the specific mysteries, the Santa Clauses and the Tooth Fairies, debunked one by one with a kind of bittersweet pride.”
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“The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had “placed” one by one in enviable niches of existence!”
“I went out to Ellington Air Force Base and met each group as one by one they arrived in their motorcades and we took off for San Antonio.”
“After Alliance Company President Michael Rodriguez detailed his ambitious journey from high school flunky to affluent business guru and how it could happen to anyone of us present, one by one the many Alliance staff supervisors addressed the daily upkeep of this big ballpark in the Bronx.”
“My run-down teammates arrived one by one with compliments for my step-kicking and campsite selection, and we went to work making ready for dinner and rest.”
“So one by one the Habitas artisans and apprentices disappeared until the establishment consisted of Richard and Senhor Tomas Habitas himself.”
“These extraordinary foreign figures, each with his complete set of crimes, horrible customs and ‘minor peculiarities,’ march one by one from the dark wings of Barbarism up to the bright footlights of Civilisation.”
“I found all these so-called eyewitnesses who had testified at the trial, and I interviewed them one by one by one.”
“She watched him as he withdrew and went back into the bathroom to collect the porcelain washbowl, then filled it with warm water and soap, returning to kneel before her and place her feet one by one into the warm suds.”
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