数じゅ珠ずつなぎ

noun

linking together; stringing together; in a row

Describes things or people connected in a chain-like sequence, like beads on a rosary. Often used in the pattern 数珠つなぎになる or 数珠つなぎにする.

• 避ひ難なんする人ひと々びとが数じゅ珠ずつなぎになって歩あるいていた。

  The evacuees walked in a single file, linked together.

• 犯はん人にんは数じゅ珠ずつなぎに逮たい捕ほされた。

  The suspects were arrested one after another, as if linked in a chain.