bit by bit

How To Use bit by bit In A Sentence

• He assembled the model aircraft bit by bit.
• The work was never finished and bit by bit the building fell apart.
• As things stand we are, bit by bit, losing the antimicrobial battle. Times, Sunday Times
• The experiment faltered bit by bit.
• As the mist cleared, the house came into sight bit by bit.
• The process has been compared to moving a rug by flapping one end of it to create a wave, causing the rug to inch along bit by bit.
• But Henry had suffocated her, bit by bit, until everyone around them saw her as nothing more than his ancillary.
• Has anyone considered that one day, (radical) Islamists may begin to discuss the idea of partitioning part of the UK, rather than 'take over' the whole country bit by bit? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• But now, if the doom-mongers are to be believed, the group will tailspin and be sold off bit by bit to the highest bidder.
• The finding of his mare – J. the Third, as he laughingly dubbed her – decided the point; he forthwith took on himself the role of quixotic highwayman, roaming his beloved South Country, happier than he had been since he first left England; bit by bit regaining his youth and spirits, which last, not all the trouble he had been through had succeeded in extinguishing .... The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century