How To Use Gradual In A Sentence

The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
A former BMX enthusiast, Moore switched to motocross a couple of years ago and he has since taken on gradually more difficult tasks.
The investigation revealed that it was likely that the airplane gradually accumulated a thin, rough glaze/mixed ice coverage on the leading edge deicing boot surfaces, possibly with ice ridge formation on the leading edge upper surface, as the airplane descended from 7000 feet mean sea level (msl) to 4000 feet msl in icing conditions, which may have been imperceptible to the pilots. WN.com - Business News
As time passes, around 2,000 women involved have gradually died, with only 30 of them still alive - still anxious about the possible end and that they may never hear the government's true-hearted confession.
The rest of the explanation seeps out gradually as midnight melts into the early hours. Times, Sunday Times

The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
Gradually coffee came to replace maize as the main agricultural produce of the community and foodstuffs were bought with surplus cash.
The decrease in myocardial oxygen consumption was evidenced by a gradual decline in atrioventricular oxygen difference, indicating a decrease in myocardial oxygen uptake relative to supply.
As the pattering rain gradually came to a stop, a glimmer of light filtered through the window curtain.
Gradually pour half of hot milk mixture over yolks while whisking constantly.
The ability to do this is greatest in the very young and diminishes gradually with age.
Tourism has also accelerated immigration to Panajachel and furthered a gradual diversification in its social composition.
Her conversion to Buddhism/Islam was a very gradual process.
Retirement is likely to move from an abrupt halt at a fixed age to a more gradual withdrawal, with the abolition of compulsory retirement ages. Times, Sunday Times
Round them, as they gradually went down with the subsiding soil, calamites grew, at one level after another. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
The micropipette was pulled manually to a gradual taper to ease insertion into the tissue.
After an initial burst of enthusiasm for jogging, I gradually lost interest.
In the postwar period they gradually merged with the Conservatives until they disappeared altogether. Times, Sunday Times
He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.
Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes. Timaeus
In ‘Amphibians,’ the tortoises arranged around the shell-like form vary in size gradually.
Amateurs can easily fill the tubes using simple agricultural tools, after which bags are arranged in a spiral that is gradually corbelled inwards as it ascends to form a dome.
The teacher in this school gradually separated himself from the grammatist, and often the two were found in adjoining rooms in the same school. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
Zoe's illness took her family by surprise and crept into their lives gradually.
Everything was explained in it -- everything made clear; and gradually she realised the natural, strong and pardonable craving of the rich, unloved man, to seek out for himself some means whereby he might leave all his world's gainings to one whose kindness to him had not been measured by any knowledge of his wealth, but which had been bestowed upon him solely for simple love's sake. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
The edification of this house is gradually to be perfected more and more till the coming of Christ, by laying the foundation of Christianity, in bringing men still unto Christ, and carrying on the superstruction in perfecting them in Christ in all spiritual growth, till at last the top-stone be laid on, the Church completed, and translated _to the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens_. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually, allowing major alterations to take place over a long period.
In the next five decades, from 1920 to 1970, gradual and quiet progress was made for woman in several areas.
Absently coiling a blonde curl around her fingers she re-examined the office she was gradually growing familiar with.
Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
Gradually I whittled down my criteria. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
Some women will wean off gradually by dropping feeds and reducing feed times over a period of weeks. Times, Sunday Times
As the next five years passed, his back pain gradually got worse and eventually spinal canal stenosis was diagnosed.
I had the parcel on the ground, and waited for ages, edging gradually into position, when it arrived.
Outsiders gradually brought influences like barbecue sauce and side dishes, but the core Texas values remain stubbornly intact at these old school joints: meat seasoned only with salt, pepper and smoke, and served without plates or utensils. You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Don’t mess with Texas
We usually prefer gradual and mild change to sudden and dramatic change.
Younger members gradually split off, building a separate house in the neighborhood.
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
Human nature being what it is, books will gradually disappear and get chucked in the bin.
Schumacher opens the film in terrific style with a black and white section set in 1919 Paris, which gradually melts into a full colour flashback to the bustling 1870s.
Referring to Fig. 249, it is seen that the large expansion of the bone is produced by the gradual transition of the hollow shaft of compact bone to cancellated bone, resulting in the production of a much larger volume. II. Osteology. 6c. 3. The Femur
In London he gradually took over the Underground system and came to control every line except the Metropolitan.
The clouds will gradually appear across the UK, usually reaching a peak around three weeks after the summer solstice. Times, Sunday Times
One of these went past me as I stood by the roadside, rising very gradually into the air and repeating all the way, _Chip, chip, chip, chip_, till at last he broke into the warble, which was a full half longer than usual. Birds in the Bush
Her success has been a gradual progression over a 14-year career.
Also, the lift builds gradually and the weight of the aircraft shifts relatively slowly from the landing gear to the wing.
Not just settings of the ordinary, but the copious amounts of plainchant needed to cover all the propers (the introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion and other sentences, all of which change according to the day and festival).
Gradually pour the liquid into the flour, working it in carefully with a wooden spoon.
It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times
Currently, a crumpled “riser” pipe is preventing the full flow of oil – like a kinked garden hose – though reports suggest it is gradually deteriorating. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect
My usual approach to storytelling is to focus on several different characters or groups of characters that gradually come together in the course of the story. An interview with Terry Brooks about his new series that begins with Armageddon's Children
Sometimes, this problem will correct itself as the skin and muscle gradually stretch to become more supple and elastic. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
Start by doing the plank on your knees and gradually work your way up.
With Beijing for the electronic entertainment venues of the "ban", the network of "recreation hall opened, " the ad is gradually increasing.
Women wear the patch on their abdomen, where it gradually releases a dose of testosterone into the body through the skin.
The work has been progressing well and thoughts are gradually turning from balers and bogs to beaches and from hay fields and haggarts to holidays.
In the arrhythmic patients, the antiarrhythmic treatment was gradually reduced, and in patients 1, 3, and 9, it was withdrawn.
This majority alliance is a process of gradual accumulation.
Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
Of course, I flew from London to Istanbul, so it was a sudden jump from one culture to another, rather than a gradual shift.
After the respirator is disconnected, the camera pans over to the monitor as she gradually flatlines, followed by a close-up of Julia's dead hand being held by Sally Field. April 2004
Gradually, their entrepôt function was being changed by the opening up of efficient transport links to their hinterland, and its transformation by manufacturing industry.
More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
Thereafter, a formal machinery of collective bargaining was gradually set up.
Gradually whisk in beaten egg and vanilla essence.
The visiting pack were in awesome form, consistently making ground at the edges of the rucks and gradually wearing down the home eight, who by the end resembled a bunch of bedraggled and punch-drunk boxers.
Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
The play calls for Elizabeth to gradually learn the rules, reaching the same irresolute state as the adults who surround her.
And so all Israel shall be saved -- To understand this great statement, as some still do, merely of such a gradual inbringing of individual Jews, that there shall at length remain none in unbelief, is to do manifest violence both to it and to the whole context. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We did not pull all our Troop out of Korea and they apprieated to this day but we gradually let them take over there own destine and boy look at them now. Republican: Obama must lead on Afghanistan
A former drug addict and reformed hellraiser, he's on the comeback trail with a sickly song that gradually starts to work its way up the charts.
When you are ready to finish the exercise, gradually deepen your breathing.
The audience becomes gradually and wonderfully aware that the musical process is an almost direct transcription of the physical one. Times, Sunday Times
If you can take advantage of their poor judgement, you can gradually narrow the gap.
I'm very glad to see that your vocabulary is gradually building up.
The various components of the mixture separate as they gradually move down the column.
So instead I started using an electric razor to shave closely, but gradually got tired of that and just started razoring it again.
Software to support business meetings even without a special aide present is gradually entering the marketplace.
A gradual decrease ( fade - out ) or increase ( fade-in ) of the brightness of an image, or the volume of an audio signal.
But even if one allows for the gradual introduction of minimal, or totally unmetered phone charges, one has to question how many more eyeballs are there to be captured.
These songs gradually developed a concomitant form of dialogue styled saturæ, a term denoting "miscellany", and derived perhaps from the _Satura lanx_, a charger filled with the first-fruits of the year's produce, which was offered to Bacchus and Ceres. [ English Satires
My hands still bleed if I move my fingers too quickly, but the doc says the raw skin and general tenderness will gradually go away.
There are fathers and mothers who urge their daughters to make haste to occupy every coigne of vantage, and gradually advance into the heart of the enemy's country. Girls and Women
With the machine running, gradually add enough oil to achieve a sloppy paste consistency.
The fertiliser releases nutrients gradually as bacteria decompose it.
Temple building in India, by the Mediaeval Age, had gradually crystallized into two main streams - the north Indian or Indo-Aryan, and the Dravidian in south India.
The logarithmic scale of the fresh mass and the linear scale of the dry mass together show how the initially exponential growth changes gradually into linear.
In just the last year, this has happened more than once, and we could go back further and retrace the gradual buildup to this moment. Alison Rose Levy: How To Survive In An Age Of Crisis
Buchanan has said he would gradually eliminate all foreign economic aid and give only limited assistance in instances of humanitarian disasters.
Besides, it is not only possible, but even probable, that both theories -- that of heterogenetic generation and that of gradual development -- may have to share with one another in the explanation of the origin of species; and even that, especially for the lowest species and for the beginnings of the main types, primitive generation also has its share in the establishment of the paternity. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
The formerly disconnected ideas are gradually shown to fit into each other.
He has become a victim of the 'gradual', the relativistic slippage of time between the islands. The Times Literary Supplement
Gradually Ethan felt his heart rate ebb back toward normal.
The children gradually began to accept her as one of the family.
Gradually the square becomes a whirl of people.
But, for example, if there were a long-term drought or a permanent change in rainfall patterns macroclimate, the microclimate of the microhabitats would also gradually change. Species vulnerability traits
Climatically, the gradual change view of the future assumes that agriculture will continue to thrive and growing seasons will lengthen.
Gradually their talk died and drowsiness began to steal upon the eyelids of the little waifs.
Proper torquing avoids elastic separation of the mating parts under load and resists gradual loosening over time.
Import and export statistics show that the export ratio of the nation's mid- and downstream petrochemical products is gradually rising.
In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
We turned to the left, and marched along its edge in search of a "pont"; but matters became gradually worse; other crevasses joined on to the first one, and the further we proceeded the more riven and dislocated the ice became. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory. Matthew Yglesias » Budgeting, Pence-Style
The future of the oil services industry remains uncertain and any recovery is likely to be gradual. Times, Sunday Times
Gradually the sun warms up and then, finally, a band of bright, pale gold hits the snow and the fresh powder begins to sparkle beneath your skis.
This was done by making some dummy rounds with the bullet seated way out and then gradually increasing the depth until the gun would just barely close.
PERPER: Well, sometimes you can have a slow brain bleed, which is called subdural hemorrhage, which is gradual, and it depends on the rate of bleeding. CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007
Pinnæ lanceolate, pinnatifid, the lowest pairs gradually shorter and deflexed. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
the snake moved gradually toward its victim
They are encouraged with the gradual increase in the number of new persons who have joined martial arts dojos this year.
Gradually a sort of entente seemed to grow between it and the colonial enemy.
Women have tended to think in terms of a gradual and natural evolution of their rights. Critical Social Research
Gradually, as the years went by, Abercrombie and Gibson slipped into virtual oblivion.
The gradual unfreezing of the class structure has weakened party identification and undermined tribal politics. Times, Sunday Times
These days the Guards regiments put the tallest soldiers at the outside of the ranks and taper gradually towards the shortest in the middle. Times, Sunday Times
The gradual decline has not surprised him, not least because of the way smokers have been lectured to from on high. Times, Sunday Times
Jack and Mary had been married for a long time but gradually drifted apart until they separated.
She is gradually returning to her brilliant best after a long layoff and this perfect draw makes her hard to ignore. The Sun
The law now seems clear, however, that so long as the change is gradual and imperceptible the doctrine applies.
Crisco and mix other ingredients gradually to them, bake in six small criscoed plates for 5 minutes. The Story of Crisco
Another first-person narrative by a young man, it shows how personal thrillseeking becomes gradually commodified. The Times Literary Supplement
Instead of an honourable retirement, Louis was swallowed up by the sharks circling the boxing business, and gradually pulled into the netherworld of drugs, drink, violence and the mob.
The drift apart had been gradual.
The buildings, like the bridge, will weather and change over time and gradually acquire the patina of use and common history.
The propensity for people enriched by capital gains to borrow and spend is gradually diminishing.
Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
With the rapidly development of stockbreeding in the whole world, law system of the veterinary drugs gradually emerges its limitation, and it obviously drops behind the developed countries.
In recent years, with micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) penetrating gradually through optics, a full new technique field-micro-opto-electro- mechanical systems (MOEMS) came into being in 1990's.
He says that winning the championship last year is still only gradually sinking in. Times, Sunday Times
At the third month of pregnancy a hard extrauterine tumor was found, which was gradually increasing in size and extending to the left side of the hypogastrium, the associate symptoms of pregnancy, sense of pressure, pain, tormina, and dysuria, being unusually severe. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
As the film unfolds, Coppola subtly shifts the perspective to show the plate glass windows as barriers and Tokyo's apparent absurdities are gradually revealed as a positive and regenerative force.
The unfolding journey in the album, from the contemplative to the celebrative, is a perfect analog to the gradual evolution from darkness to the dawn, in our morning event. Joseph Vella: Interview: Paul Winter -- The 16th Annual Summer Solstice Concert June 18th NYC
Thus, deposition graded gradually from anoxic environments below the storm wave base to oxic environments above the storm wave base.
Was language invented extempore, or gradually developed from grunts and screeches?
Focal neurologic deficits such as hemiparesis, speech difficulties (dominant hemisphere involvement), and visual field defects gradually ensue ipsilateral to the side of seizures.
The company has gradually focused on its current areas of specialization.
Gradually add the buttermilk and mix to a soft dough. The Sun
In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener.
Gradually mix in to form sticky dough. Times, Sunday Times
The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
The flowers are borne at the height of 2ft. to 3ft., and are produced singly on very thick, rigid stalks, long, nearly nude, grooved, furnished with numerous short, bristle-like hairs, and gradually thickening up to the involucrum of the flower. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
Do artists discover a personal style and develop their themes gradually or are these to be found in embryonic form in their earliest works? Britain's best film directors show some early promise
These prejudices are gradually and silently melting away; and it is cheering to see the better feelings of our nature effectively advancing the art to its legitimate place in education, under the guise of gymnastics and callisthenics. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
And finally the mucous membrane, thick and rich in blood vessels at the top and gradually thinner and paler below. COMPULSION
Crafty once meant powerful, and cunning meant knowledgeable; each has gradually taken on negative connotations (this is called pejoration). Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral
To be sure, change was gradual, and some exhibited strong anger, but these women appear to have been more retrained and they constituted a smaller proportion of the suspects.
Gradually the call to preach ‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God, the gospel of the good news to lost sinners’, had been developing in Richard.
But when we started to sing, a few passers-by began turning their heads in curiosity and gradually a crowd formed and some even sang with us.
He allowed the engine to tick over for 5 minutes to make it warm up gradually.
Personal allowances withdrawn gradually for those who earn more than 100,000. Times, Sunday Times
The gorillas' natural habitat has been gradually destroyed to make way for farmland and cash crops for sale on the global market.
The cast consists of ill-assorted schoolboys and workmen, turned gradually into a competent team.
It would also be in line with the gradual drift towards fuel tax harmonisation across the Community.
Move gradually to an unweighted barbell in weeks two and three, and a weighted bar by week four.
And indeed, though truly the most pithecoid of known human skulls, the Neanderthal cranium is by no means so isolated as it appears to be at first, but forms, in reality, the extreme term of a series leading gradually from it to the highest and best developed of human crania. Essays
As Nariman gradually fades away into the passive state of the bedridden invalid, the novel places Yezad on center stage.
As it is, one has to read through it to find the good stuff, which is not a thrilling prospect, notwithstanding the fact that much worthwhile material is here, though one should take it in small quantities: mithridatism The act of taking poison in increasing doses as a means of building an immunity to it, as in the case of people who start out with talk shows and gradually work their way up to situation comedies. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2
The US comedy format was gradually imported to UK screens.
The question was how they would work off that overvaluation: gradually or suddenly. Times, Sunday Times
Their discussion gradually rounded into a plan for ensuring safety in production.
Gradually add the milk, stirring or whisking to form a sauce.
Once the fish have spawned they will gradually work their way back to old haunts but if the summer stays red hot, they stick to the weirs.
Gradually this notion of election has been conflated with another, still more dangerous idea.
Be this as it may, when one has enjoyed for a certain length of time a plentitude of life a time comes when he can enjoy nothing; his impressibility gradually decreases, and the effects on each of his senses are badly arranged. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
William Cecil thought it would be a good idea to replace purveyance entirely with composition and gradually this began to be the case.
The only remaining possible explanation appears to be that seconds have gradually become shorter. Times, Sunday Times
Then gradually it assumed a specific regional identity in the West, developing a strong imaginative appeal to both easterners and westerners.
The diamond mines of Golconda were legendary, but gradually rich deposits were discovered in many other countries.
As I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.
In a separate briefing, Belarus 'Deputy Central Bank Chairman Vassily Matyushevsky said the central bank was planning a gradual devaluation of the Belarus rouble, which is managed against an undisclosed basket. The BEING HAD Times
Furthermore, long-standing untreated gonorrhoea and syphilis cause joint swelling and inflammation with the gradual erosion of complete joints in severe cases.
At Tewkesbury School, which is not controlled by the education authority, the new system will be introduced gradually.
However, since then, the issue has gradually slid to the outer edges of American consciousness.
Down the gradual slope the scout hastened; his footfall was the only sound that broke the stillness after the answers to his call had ceased. Old Indian Days
We also gradually got back into the business of building combat aircraft, but only as partners in collaborative programmes. Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
So they have been gradually, in response to a lawsuit with information requests, releasing some of those images.
In the past decade there has been a gradual departure from the legend of the Toulouse game to a rather more prosaic modern form. Times, Sunday Times
The lights went up slowly, in a gradual buildup that didn't hurt the eyes.
My parents' obvious aging, brought sharply before me instead of gradually as the last few years had passed, when I'd seen them every day, was a staggering shock.
He tried to speak English all the day,but gradually he lapsed into his native tongue.
The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
The event notes are interleaved with my own thoughts, which progress over the seminar and gradually completely dominate.
The latest batch of ice core samples suggests that climate changes can occur gradually or catastrophically.
The results indicate that the amorphous film gradually transfers into microcrystalline Si, and the grain size is nanometer order of magnitude.
Secondly, we are all aware that we should try kit out in shallow water before gradually building up our depth and experience and undertaking more adventurous dives.
The establishment of fisheries commissions, and the gradual enlargement of their powers, was a seminal development.
The trust and respect of friendship is gradually turning into love that will treat you well. The Sun
Then, gradually, the moiling stopped and, white-faced, he said: 'Can't do it. THE DICE MAN
The raags would be different and gradually merge into one.
After this initial reluctance he gradually began using the cards and now writes notes regularly. Christianity Today
The all-pervasive micro-regulatory state "enervates," but nicely, gradually, so after a while you don't even notice. The State Despotic
A common presentation is failure to pass meconium in the first 24 hours coupled with a gradual onset of abdominal distension and vomiting.
The news of her divorce gradually rippled outwards.
For Baby's First Feeding, use 4 Tablespoons of liquid for every 1 Tablespoon of dry cereal. Gradually increase serving size as baby grows.
Since the end of the first dotcom bubble, we've seen a gradual decline in the number of people applying to earn computer science degrees.
Using the tilt of the Sixaxis, you stir the petal of a flower on the breeze, and as you touch other opening blooms on your way, your single pale curl is joined by gradually more colorful petals, eventually assembling the sort of floral cloud seen in artful visions of springtime cherry blossom breezes. Flower's Lawful, Logical Wind
Just after 10, the crocodile began moving across the loop of snares set to trap her by government workers and as she gradually became entangled the snare tightened so that by 10.15 am she was unable to move.
A grid of supple oak laths was laid flat, then gradually lowered over 15 weeks to its undulating form.
A committee was appointed to investigate the question, and a legislative agitation was thus begun which was destained to last for many years and to produce a series of laws which have gradually taken most of the conditions of employment in large establishments under the control of the government. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

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