English Phrase of the Day

in a row

Definitions

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in a row
1. prep. successively, one after the other.
After making losses four years in a row, the manager knew she had to sack someone.
2. prep. Placed in a straight line.
Bottles of every type of alcohol they had were lined up in a row behind the bar.
Analysis
in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
row
1. n. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
2. n. A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
3. n. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
4. v. (transitive, or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
5. v. To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

Example Sentences

God, you've one three in a row.

It is my fault you had ten flops in a row.

A minor judge's brief spell of laying down the law came to an abrupt halt yesterday when he was convicted of drunkenly swearing at police officers in a row at a kebab shop.

What really galls me is this is two wars in a row where we had to pull their chestnuts out of the fire.

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