one by one

Adverb

Meaning

one piece at a time

apart from others

in succession

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

one at a time individually singly severally separately sequentially one after the other by the piece alone apart gradually solo independently solely distinctly

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Antonyms

together altogether collectively mutually jointly abruptly

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Examples

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Thom Gunn

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. Robert Frost

To remove the hairs from a horse's tail, one by one must be plucked out. Latin Proverb

One by one we count the beans. Turkish Proverb

Grapes are eaten one by one. Egyptian Proverb

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