Example sentences for: one-thing-after-another

How can you use “one-thing-after-another” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It has a gritty feel and a tight, methodical, one-thing-after-another tempo.

  • One of the best things about David Lynch's marvelous new film The Straight Story is its play on "straight"--which is both the name of the protagonist, the failing septuagenarian Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), and a description of the movie's one-thing-after-another mode of storytelling.

  • What I wanted, however, was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy that made Bottle Rocket such a trial.

  • But just when you start to get impatient with the plodding, one-thing-after-another style of narration, there's a shocker that blows you into the movie's last act, and then a scene in which a couple of former antagonists figure out what stinks and join forces in an abandoned motel to stave off an army of bad guys.


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