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in a row

in a row prepositional phrase: successively, one after the other, in succession; together.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Successively, one after the other, in succession; together.
    • After making losses four years in a row, the manager knew she had to sack someone.
    • I dreamt of my dead husband, who asked me for a cozonac, adding, 'It's important that you prepare it yourself.' I had this dream three nights in a row until I finally baked it.2010, someone quoted in W. Gordon Lawrence's The Creativity of Social Dreaming, page 88
  2. Placed in a straight line.
    • Bottles of every type of alcohol they had were lined up in a row behind the bar.

in a row meaning in Malayalam

in a row in Malayalam

consecutively, in succession, running
വരിയായി, തുടരെ, നിരവിൽ, നിരയായി, നിരനിരയായി, ഒന്നിനുപുറകേ ഒന്നായി

Examples of in a row in a sentence

  • If you choose to drink again the best way to avoid another instance of withdrawal is to avoid drinking two days in a row.2010, Kenneth Anderson, How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol, page 59:
  • Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:

Synonyms of in a row

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Questions about in a row

What does in a row mean?
In a row means successively, one after the other, in succession; together.
What is in a row in Malayalam?
In a row in Malayalam is വരിയായി, തുടരെ, നിരവിൽ. See In a row meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use in a row in a sentence?
If you choose to drink again the best way to avoid another instance of withdrawal is to avoid drinking two days in a row.
What part of speech is in a row?
In a row is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in a row in the dictionary

  1. in a pig's whisper
  2. in a pinch
  3. in a puff of smoke
  4. in a real state
  5. in a right state
  6. in a row
  7. in a rut
  8. in a sea-way
  9. in a sense
  10. in a similar vein
  11. in a snap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in a row (page history and authors); in a row (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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