How to Use one right after the other in a Sentence

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  • Emotions could be about to hit us like tidal waves, one right after the other.
    Chicago Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Closing out the 10-spot list are three more K-pop acts, which land one right after the other.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • The passing of any young person is a tragedy, but two friends so senselessly and one right after the other?
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Events will be held one right after the other and are scheduled to finish a little before noon.
    Arianna Vedia, Dallas News, 3 June 2021
  • Seeing it all together, one right after the other, was too much.
    NBC News, 18 Oct. 2020
  • When the shelling began, pieces of normal life started to disappear, one right after the other.
    USA Today, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Evusheld is given in two injections, typically in the hip area, one right after the other.
    Lela Moore, SELF, 5 Aug. 2022
  • She was still haunted by an older couple — both Tyson employees — who’d collapsed one right after the other as a nurse escorted them inside the clinic.
    Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2020
  • But the fear in the coming months is that a person could develop both of these infections either simultaneously, or one right after the other.
    Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Imagine trying to pitch to those two physically enormous human beings, one right after the other.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Competing one right after the other, both began their 2022 state journeys with a pair of first-round victories Friday afternoon.
    cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The original’s impact has been dimmed in hindsight by its sequels, which landed, one right after the other, as dispiriting duds, crushed by their own pomposity.
    Adam Sternbergh, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Performed one right after the other, these two songs made for moments of mutual vulnerability between the musicians and the audience.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Many brands create individual vacuums and mops that communicate with one another via smartphone or internal programming to schedule cleanings one right after the other.
    Carsen Joenk, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2020

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