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One by one   /wən baɪ wən/   Listen
One by one

adverb
1.
In single file.  Synonyms: one after another, one at a time.
2.
One piece at a time.  Synonym: by the piece.
3.
Apart from others.  Synonyms: individually, on an individual basis, separately, severally, singly.  "The fine points are treated singly"





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"One by one" Quotes from Famous Books



... how much it would ease our tasks For the day that's just begun, To live our life a step at a time And our moments one by one. ...
— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson
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... One by one he folded away all his possessions into the depths of his trunk, and when at last the chaotic mass of belongings had crept into a tidy space, he looked around—that last surveying glance one gives to see that nothing has been left out. Nothing had been left out, ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
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... lady-like English girl gained by the contrast. There was rather too much tranquillity to-day, perhaps; so he exerted some tact to draw Cecil from her reserve, the cause of which he was unable to guess. He agreed with her in reviling the monotony and stupidity of sleighing picnics, having to follow one by one like a string of geese, long after one was perished with cold, though he failed to detect in her weariness that she was wishing for her father to stop at the Tremaines', and annex the truant sleigh to ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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... with their knives open hurried forward to the assistance of the carpenter, who bravely kept his arms stretched out till they succeeded in cutting off its head; but even then those powerful tentacles retained so much vitality that it was necessary to remove them one by one. The carpenter's arm was almost paralysed, and he complained ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
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... Her sentimentality gradually waned as the prices offered steadily mounted. After long hesitation she gave orders to sell at auction the furniture from the house of a distant cousin, and to rent the house. That broke the spell. One by one the late abodes of the Brinnarii were cleared and sold; sold furniture and all, cleared ...
— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White
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