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one by one
Idioms and Phrases
Also, one at a time . Individually in succession, as in The ducklings jumped into the pond one by one , or One at a time they went into the office . Formerly also put as one and one and one after one , this idiom dates from about a.d. 1000.Example Sentences
Pressed by shrinking options, she sends some of her children safely away from the chaotic aftermath of war, one by one.
Several states lacked that basic information, and researchers had to call treatment plants one by one to learn how much water is being treated and reused.
Behne asked them, one by one, as she set new hearing dates for the children in her court that day.
Yet one by one, those neighbours have packed their bags and left, never to return to the homes they once loved.
As the judges hugged him one by one, Katy Perry wiped away a few tears.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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