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ONE AFTER THE OTHER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Following one another in quick succession
Synonyms:
one after another; one after the other
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Context examples:
'You could almost narrate the body changes and narrate the dream. She sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit, then she turns all dark, octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom.' 'This is a camouflage, like she's just subdued a crab and she's just going to sit there and eat it, and she doesn't want anyone to notice her.' 'It's a very unusual behavior to see the color come and go on her mantle like that, just to be able to see all the different color patterns flashing one after the other, you don't normally see that when an animal's sleeping.'
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
These rapid successes, gained one after the other over four celebrated warriors, worked the crowd up to a pitch of wonder and admiration.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the wolf was gone, came a dog, a stag, a hare, a bear, a lion, and all the beasts of the forest, one after the other.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
And there all day, and day after day, there was bustle and crowding and labor, while the great ships loaded up, and one after the other spread their white pinions and darted off to the open sea, amid the clash of cymbals and rolling of drums and lusty shouts of those who went and of those who waited.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“No,” replied Gretel, “that will be too heavy for the little duck; she shall take us across, one after the other.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Then still more men fell down, one after the other; they brought nine dead men’s legs and two skulls, and set them up and played at nine-pins with them.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
