adverb
definition
In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
definition
By degrees
Examples of gradually in a Sentence
Weeks slipped by and her body gradually healed.
This world will gradually come to us.
Gradually his grip weakened and then his eyes closed.
Howard had to pull out of the driveway slowly and gradually increase his speed.
Gradually the fear began to abate.
Gradually the numbness gave way to pain.
Gradually winter released its grip and flowers erupted from the ground in celebration of spring.
Reason gradually returned to the dark eyes.
Gradually, civilization seems to be learning this.
It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm.
Gradually Matthew's suckling slowed and he fell asleep.
His hand was so warm and the caress was so gentle that her eyes gradually closed.
Gradually the sound abated and Keaton released her.
His gaze lifted to her, gradually focusing on what she was saying.
Gradually her eyelids drooped and then she was dreaming again.
I guess it happened gradually.
Anna Pavlovna's drawing room was gradually filling.
The road gradually narrowed and climbed through hills choked with brush and huge oak trees.
The household gradually settled down to near normal.
If we begin with a blue glass, we may observe the gradually increasing obliquity of the direction of maximum polarization; and then by exchanging the blue glass for a red one, we may revert to the original condition of things, and observe the transition from perpendicularity to obliquity over again.
The first obscure and conf used conception of law gradually becomes clearer and better defined.
What had started out as a pain-in-the-ass babysitting favor to Tim had turned gradually into something he looked forward to.
With this object his staff was gradually reconstructed and its real strength removed and transferred to the Emperor.
Gradually some of the warmth returned to his dark gaze.
Gradually the nausea abated and the pounding in her head stopped.
Gradually the balloon grew bigger, which was proof that it was settling down upon the Land of the Mangaboos.
The two had gradually fallen in love, married, scraped together funds, and together with Fred O'Connor, purchased a hundred-year-old Colorado Victorian home.
Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college.
And gradually from week to week the character of each tree came out, and it admired itself reflected in the smooth mirror of the lake.
Range after range of mountains began with a mixture of sharp green that gradually faded until the last range was wrapped in the haze of distance.
The town of Ouray rests at the boxed-in end of the narrowing Uncompahgre Valley, which spreads from the towering San Juan Mountains in roughly a northwest direction, dropping elevation as the valley gradually widens.
Gradually, his warmth sank into her skin, and she lay still, exhausted yet soothed by the heat of his body.
The afternoon minimum at Kew gradually deepens as midsummer approaches.
As the powers of the telescope were gradually developed, it was found that the finest hairs or filaments of silk, or the thinnest silver wires that could be drawn, were much too thick for the refined purposes of the astronomer, as p p they entirely obliterated the image of a star in the more powerful telescopes.
Even at this stage the vindictive or retributive character of punishment remains, but gradually, and specially after the humanist movement under thinkers like Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham, new theories begin to emerge.
Beginning with the Aptian and Albian the sea again gradually spread over the country and attained its maximum in the early part of the Senonian epoch, when once more the ancient massifs of the Central Plateau, Brittany and the Ardennes, alone rose above the waves.
The molar teeth are six in number on each side, increasing in size from before backwards, and, as in the elephants, with a horizontal succession, the anterior teeth being lost before the full development of the posterior ones, which gradually move forward, taking the place of those that are destroyed by wear.
It rises gradually towards the centre, where it culminates in Mount Elias, 1864 ft.
Gradually Durham, Short horn, Hereford and other stock were introduced to improve the native breeds, with results so satisfactory that now herds of threequarters-bred cattle are to be found in all parts of the country.
His conclusions were that the group "has never been nearer the mainland than it is now, nor have its members been at any time closer together"; and that the character of the flora and fauna is the result of species straggling over from America, at long intervals of time, to the different islets, where in their isolation they have gradually varied in different degrees and ways from their ancestors.
To this council, with these extended powers, was handed over the absolute administration, collection and control of the " six indirect contributions " above enumerated, for the benefit of the bondholders, and in addition, it was to encash for the same purpose bills on the customs, to be drawn half-yearly in its favour by the minister of finance, amounting annually to £T180,000, representing the tax on Tumbeki (£TSo,000) and the surplus revenue of Cyprus (£T130,000); and the Eastern Rumelian annuity, originally fixed at £T245,000, but gradually reduced by force of circumstances, until after frequent suspensions of payment it reached in 1897 the level of £T114,000, and has, since the declaration of Bulgarian independence, been definitely stopped.
At first they only brightened her heart, but as they continued, they gradually chased the chill away.
Maurice, gradually approached more and more to those of the Church of England, which he ultimately joined.
Gradually there would arise the idea of proportionate punishment, of which the characteristic type is the lex talionis, 1 " an eye for an eye."
The curious customs, too, of which older writers tell us, are gradually dying out.
Other countries have gradually followed, and, with few exceptions, the low pitch derived from the Diapason Normal may be said to prevail throughout the musical world.
His bouts of pleasure gradually weakened his constitution; a severe colic, which seized him on the march of the army against Hamadan, was checked by remedies so violent that Avicenna could scarcely stand.
As the work of the societies succeeded, they gradually passed out of existence.
Rosas gradually concentrated all power in his own hands, and was hailed by the populace as a saviour of the state.
During the later part of the Cretaceous period the sea gradually retreated and left the whole country dry.