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    Use "gradually" in a sentence

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    gradually


    1. · Gradually reduce the salt intake to about a third of previous level


    2. · Gradually introduce whole grained and sprouted cereals


    3. She had used that knowledge to approach him very gradually when their affair began


    4. Low government revenues in rural areas and urban bias in central resource allocation have meant that social service provision has tended to start in cities and extend only gradually to the countryside


    5. Gradually the close horizons of his little working world


    6. This process gradually steps up the consciousness and enables the aspirant to arrive at the life side of manifestation instead of the form side


    7. Mirielle was one of the few who knew the whole story, gradually over time she had won his trust where few others had


    8. Then I gradually came to realise that I wasn’t half of something at all, but a whole something which used to be something else … I’m explaining this rather badly, I’m afraid


    9. Gradually, I turn the conversation and she tells me about the meal she had with Stephen; sounds to me as though my son was doing his best to divert her from what she says


    10. can gradually change the real situation, when you do not call things by

    11. ’ I replied as the dizziness gradually wears off


    12. So, I draw a card at random for the category I need each time, I develop the respective item into one or more paragraphs, and I gradually form a full story


    13. As I gradually recover, he sits down, watching me


    14. Aware at first of only my own shuffle and ache, I gradually began to distinguish other movements and routines within the close confines of these bare walls


    15. The aftermath of exertion, in my depleted state, always took the form of a waking doze, during which the space created in my crowded head gradually filled up again


    16. An eerie haze was gradually covering everything, as the mystic light was fading away


    17. We popped up bottom up, slammed back down on our faces and gradually righted to endure the same pounding for hours more


    18. Kara lay staring at the ceiling of her hospital room as the long light evening gradually turned to twilight


    19. He felt the oily air pull him down but gradually steadied himself, finding a reserve of strength and clarity that allowed him to remain standing


    20. The information she gradually built up didn't make very much sense either

    21. She could see that it got gradually brushier as she headed south


    22. Their caressing gradually built in eroticism until they coupled with some urgency


    23. He circled the house and the surrounding town and ascended gradually heading for the mountains


    24. Gradually he slowed and took a long breath


    25. She buried her face in his chest and held him tight and gradually her breathing came easy as they sat together waiting for the long dark to pass


    26. Gradually, I hear someone calling my name … slowly the mist dissipates and I realise I am lying on my bunk


    27. He stared at me in silence then gradually narrowed his eyes, 'My God you're right


    28. You will wobble about at first but gradually you will be able to remain balanced on the toes of one foot with your hands on your hips, and remain so for as long as your breath allows you


    29. I don’t know how long I stay there, at one with the roughness of the elements but, as the clouds gradually become darker and darker, portentous of worsening weather, I do the sensible thing and go below


    30. While I told you in stage 4 not to attempt anything beyond getting your toes to leave the ground for a brief instant, in this stage I would like you to increase the effort which you put into the whole movement until very gradually your body becomes less likely to drop back immediately

    31. When you can perform this variation with ease, and it can be done easily with patient practice, gradually extend the period when your face is touching the floor, and then try to practice the Yoga Complete Breath


    32. By practicing this exercise your spine will gradually become more elastic and as it effects the kidneys it is a powerful way of eliminating the toxic waste that is the primary cause of arthritis and allied complaints


    33. So while the other boys were deep into The Hobbit or Bruce Chatwin, I was reading the Iliad and the Odyssey over and over again, and gradually it became my obsession


    34. Remember to chew each mouthful slowly which simple practice will gradually accustom you to taking only as much food as you need, not as much as you think you want


    35. And I am not asking you at this stage to become a vegetarian but merely making various practical suggestions as to how it can be done in the event of your gradually turning against the eating of flesh foods for the reasons I have already outlined


    36. cup of tea or coffee but make a mental note that you will gradually


    37. From variation 2, with elbows straight, bend the spine backwards still farther, gradually bring your toes towards your head to touch the back of your head


    38. at first for this posture but you can gradually increase the number


    39. Gradually, as he battled these monsters, he began to make some headway


    40. The open grassland gradually turns into thin woodland and then becomes denser

    41. Sefir is a wonderfully smooth ride compared with the other equines I have ridden, but I am gradually finding the movement more and more painful


    42. The tune grows and with it the light increases as the voices of the Gottesmen join it … singing the same words over and over … gradually, most of those in the Gotteshouse join in


    43. The sound swells, becomes more complex and, as the non-Gottesmen drop out, transforms gradually into a peaceful, lyrical hymn casting a blessing over the assembled throng


    44. Gradually, I come back to the present


    45. Gradually, two by two they started to call it a night


    46. After twenty minutes of driving, during which the fisherman’s wife gradually lost the will to fight and bawl, the car pulled up at the head of the cliffs that rose up above the beach where the fisherman, his wife and their mutual friend had first bumped into one another


    47. My breathing slows, gradually the pills take the edge off the pain and I drop off to sleep


    48. The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders


    49. The land gradually drops away as we near the coast and it is not long before we are on the outskirts of Caernarfon and driving down the coast road towards Clynnog-fawr


    50. Understanding his frustration, I put my arms around him, resting my head on his shoulder and gradually I feel the rigidity of his body soften; his arms go around me














































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    Synonyms for "gradually"

    bit by bit gradually step by step successively constantly unceasingly perceptibly

    "gradually" definitions

    in a gradual manner