GRADUALLY in a Sentence

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258 example sentences for GRADUALLY, such as:
1. We can build up the speed gradually and safely.
2. The new employee is gradually eased in to his work.
3. The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
4. He gradually garnered a reputation as a financial expert.
5. Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GRADUALLY
gradually
 ad.  in a gradual manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To keep out of range of the revealing rays from within he made a circuit through the untrodden snow and gradually approached the farther angle of the basement wall.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-- and keep it there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  So he stayed and, gradually, unobtrusively, a large part of the burden of Tara shifted from Scarlett's shoulders to the bony shoulders of Will Benteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  She had hoped that the war being over, life would gradually resume its old face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  For a long time she lay back with her eyes closed, hearing his heavy breathing near her, and the glow of the brandy crept gradually over her, giving a false strength and warmth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Peter's sniffles stopped and his underlip began to protrude gradually until it stuck out alarmingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  He began with a bar two inches from the ground and gradually worked up the height to a foot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
11  But the firmness gradually faded away before her incessant importunings and tantrums.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
12  She returned a sympathetic enquiry, and gradually he was drawn on to talk of his latest purchases.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
13  Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
15  Presented in the light of Mrs. Trenor's vigorous comments, the reckoning was certainly a formidable one, and Lily, as she listened, found herself gradually reverting to her friend's view of the situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  Peace could come only gradually, in carefully measured steps.
2  The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
3  Although patience and persistence is a painful thing, but it can gradually bring you the benefits.
4  Although patience and persistence is a painful thing, but it can gradually bring you good.
5  When you turn on a transistorized radio, the sound comes on immediately; when you turn off, it fades out gradually.
6  Friction gradually caused the sliding box to slow down and stop.
7  Other actions we need to take may be more difficult, and we may have to build up to them gradually.
8  We can build up the speed gradually and safely.
9  We are gradually changing over to a completely metric system.
10  The company has gradually focused on its current areas of specialization.
11  Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
12  Their discussion gradually rounded into a plan for ensuring safety in production.
13  As the whisky took effect, he gradually fell into a drunken stupor.
14  The new employee is gradually eased in to his work.
15  He gradually garnered a reputation as a financial expert.