GRADUAL in a Sentence
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258 example sentences for GRADUAL, such as:
1. I advocate a policy of gradual reform.
2. Losing weight is a slow, gradual process.
3. There has been a gradual growth in membership.
4. The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
5. Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps.
2. Losing weight is a slow, gradual process.
3. There has been a gradual growth in membership.
4. The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
5. Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps.
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Meanings and Examples of GRADUAL
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gradual
n. (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
a. proceeding in small stages
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2 'There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again.
3 The scene before the reddleman's eyes was a gradual series of ascents from the level of the road backward into the heart of the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
4 This gradual sinking to the earth was, in fact, one reason why Eustacia had thought that the part of the Turkish Knight, though not the shortest, would suit her best.
5 I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.
6 The change had been so gradual, the flouting of one small convention seeming to have no connection with the flouting of another, and none of them any connection with Rhett.
7 The slope had always seemed so slight, so gradual, in days when she galloped up it on her fleet-footed mare.
8 It was here that her aunt received her rare confidences, and the pink-eyed smirk of the turbaned Beatrice was associated in her mind with the gradual fading of the smile from Mrs. Peniston's lips.
9 This spectacle of gradual strangulation made the youth writhe, and once as his friend rolled his eyes, he saw something in them that made him sink wailing to the ground.
10 This untoward result was not reached all at once, but like other similar results, by gradual steps.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
11 For to effect a gradual reform requires a sagacious man who can discern mischief while it is still remote and in the germ.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
12 With the beginning of the abolition movement and the gradual growth of a class of free Negroes came a change.
13 We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.
14 Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain.
15 The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolizing her royal lineage, her emblems, the late-flowering plant and late-blossoming tree, symbolizing the age-long gradual growth of her cultus among men.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 Losing weight is a slow, gradual process.
2 There has been a gradual growth in membership.
3 I advocate a policy of gradual reform.
4 People tried to persuade him to go for a more gradual reform programme.
5 The greatest hope for reform is the gradual spread of information.
6 As the strike went on, there was a gradual drift back to work.
7 There has been a gradual increase in the number of people owning cars.
8 He proved that the metamorphosis is a perfectly gradual one, and that no sharply separated stages of development.
9 Socialist reformism is the belief that gradual democratic changes in a society can change a society's fundamental economic relations and political structures.
10 Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps.
11 The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
12 Although patience and persistence is a painful thing, but it can gradually bring you the benefits.
13 Although patience and persistence is a painful thing, but it can gradually bring you good.
14 When you turn on a transistorized radio, the sound comes on immediately; when you turn off, it fades out gradually.
15 Friction gradually caused the sliding box to slow down and stop.