one by one

Example Sentences

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Like teens in a creepy house the software sub-sectors are being taken out methodically, one by one.

From MarketWatch

As I try to get some food in my stomach, my family leaves me one by one.

From Literature

She was prodding the cheeses with her bony fingers, sniffing them one by one.

From Literature

And it won’t work to find them and squish them one by one.

From Literature

"We are deciphering the 'identity card' of tumors, by identifying, one by one, the key variables that determine the evolution of the disease," explains Pittet.

From Science Daily