single file

Example Sentences

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It used to take me a few days to get all my different receipts into a single file for my accountant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

They walked in single file, many of them barefoot, carrying flowers, handing out bracelets and picking up new followers along the way.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

Compared to cells moving in a single file, clusters were much slower.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2024

So, when exhausted and inexperienced climbers inevitably struggle there, everybody else waits in a single file, hanging onto a fixed rope, while the bottled oxygen they need to survive at that altitude slowly drains away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

Across the island we went, single file, along a trail that meandered over the rolling moor, through the beach plum and sea heather, toward the northernmost point of the island.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk