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Example sentences for: gradually

How can you use “gradually” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

While taking care never to cross the line, they ignore anything short of crossing it, and they don't notice that the line is gradually receding.
Small bands of Asiatic hunters migrated across the Bering Strait land bridge before 12,000 b.c. and gradually spread southwards through the Americas.
This dynamic expression may reflect the working of an underlying molecular network of activating and inhibitory factors which only gradually succeed in directing expression of a given gene to a specific subset of cells which thereby become defined as a distinct anlage.
Gradually, that conservatism has been accepted and embraced by America.
Gradually the flow slows down as the tide begins to rise again.