in turn

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in turn

1. one after the other. She spoke to each of the guests in turn.

2. as an equal or related effect. Yiddish has borrowed words from German, and German has in turn borrowed from Russian. The agency wants to put pressure on local business people, so they, in turn, will put pressure on state officials.

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The Grandmother had herself carried-- or, rather, wheeled--through each room in turn, in order that she might subject the whole to a close and attentive scrutiny; while the landlord--an elderly, bald-headed man--walked respectfully by her side. The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context Ethan had imagined that his allusion might open the way to the accepted pleasantries, and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand. Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context Now, of those attendant bodies which the sun maintains in their elliptical orbits by the great law of gravitation, some few in turn possess satellites. From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context More results

References in classic literature

The Grandmother had herself carried-- or, rather, wheeled--through each room in turn, in order that she might subject the whole to a close and attentive scrutiny; while the landlord--an elderly, bald-headed man--walked respectfully by her side.

The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

Ethan had imagined that his allusion might open the way to the accepted pleasantries, and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand.

Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context

Now, of those attendant bodies which the sun maintains in their elliptical orbits by the great law of gravitation, some few in turn possess satellites.

From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

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