How to Use one by one in a Sentence

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• In pure Guardians of the Galaxy fashion, a ragtag team slowly turns up one by one with their own motives.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
• For about half of those, the pills have to be counted out one by one.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• The coffins were carried in and the names were read: one by one by one by one by one.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Step 4: Clean and Dry Pull the silver pieces out of the mixture one by one.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2023
• The balloons were then popped, one by one, to fully expose the 26-year-old artist.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The dolls appear, one by one, coated in sand and muck and seaweed.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Circles formed and one by one bold and gilled performed.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Naomi Campbell came by and caught me learning to climb the steps, one by one.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
• They will be issued one by one, starting at 10:00 a.m., with the Trump case most likely to be the last.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 1 July 2024
• When the team was announced, one by one the lucky few bounded from backstage and bathed in the spotlight.
  — Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
• 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
• The game involves guessing words that are acted out one by one to form a phrase.
  — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• But one by one, all of them faltered as the virus mutated.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
• Thousands of stones, both large and small, carried one by one, fortify the walls of the Tiny Farm.
  — Gautami Reddy, Architectural Digest, 29 July 2024
• The judge is shown placing medals around the necks of the children one by one but then skipping past the only Black girl there.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
• One person wears the shirt with the other puts a Q-Tip in the straw one by one and blows it out onto their target.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2023
• Mayhem broke out as police took down tents, one by one.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• Slowly, all the fake answers disappeared from the screen one by one.
  — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• Then, one by one, members of the tribe began to rise and share stories about Mary Goudy-Settler.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• So throughout the movie we’re being stalked by orangutans who are killing, one by one, the team off with throwing stars.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
• Don't waste time making all of your guests' favorite cocktails one by one.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2024
• Inside were six hidden bottles of Smirnoff Ice, worth $12, and the clerk began pulling them out one by one.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 25 May 2023
• The Orb is there too, chrome, gleaming, mounted at eye-level on a pole, waiting to scan us, one by one.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• After an hour of bumping and grinding, people fall out and sit down, one by one.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Starship depot will linger in low-Earth orbit as tankers arrive one by one.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• But even with all that sugar, the textures announce themselves one by one.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• First the comments on the article page started popping in, one by one.
  — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• Colorado Parks and Wildlife experts swung crate doors open one by one to let the wolves run free onto public land.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
• For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
  — Zach Dyer, CBS News, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024