one by one

idiom

: separately in a series : one at a time : first one and then another one, etc.

I solved the problems one by one.

The performers took the stage one by one.

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But investigators began to suspect there was something sinister behind that smile after every member of her family mysteriously died, one by one, over the years. —

Sean Neumann, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024 For a while, the team sits together in the truck, watching in companionable silence as the lumbering giants disappear, one by one, into the trees. —

Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024 Subsequent Season 2 episodes will roll out one by one every Friday through March 21. —

Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024 Instead, somber faces walked, one by one, Thursday morning toward the oak tree planted along a sidewalk at the halfway mark of the annual Piedmont Turkey Trot. —

Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for one by one