Only very gradually do the distinctions between animate and inanimate, voluntary and involuntary actions, which are taken for granted by the modern mind, arise.
It defies all attempts at material coercion, and gradually transforms a material medium into what is substantially a psychological one.
Rumors of its existence, however, became gradually noised abroad, and necessarily attracted the attention of Mr. Atwood's democratic friends.
By reading these and other good books, helped by the kindly influence of his wife, Bunyan was gradually reclaimed from his evil ways, and led gently into the way of righteousness.
From these instances I take the most certain omens of our perpetual and increasing happiness, since her affection is not founded on my youth or person, which must gradually decay; but she is in love with the immortal part of me.
From out of the distant sky above the armada emerged a flock of gray gulls--tiny specks at first, theygradually spread until their steel wings swept a space five miles in width.
They have gradually been turning in disgust from our corrupt legislatures, our corrupt courts, our corrupt municipalities, our rotten boroughs, our corrupt Congress.
But gradually Roderick began to care for nothing else; his fishing and his riding were forgotten, and he began to plan how he might be alone, so that the cat would come to him.
And then there came a darkness, and the form of Heiri seemed to fade gradually away, as though he were withdrawn along some secret path; and there went others with him.
The commons gradually won for its members freedom from arrest without its permission and the right of punishing and expelling members for crimes committed.
The justices in eyre gradually ceased to perform administrative duties on their eyres because landed society had objected to their intrusiveness.
Well, we know something that's gradually bringing us toward establishing that," remarked Scarterfield.
Day by day as I came to see her, the hectic flush in her cheek kept deepening, and the eyes grew brighter and more sorrowful, while she grew gradually weaker.
But gradually the wheels of life began to turn more strongly.
Gradually there was coming into my heart the hope that ere long I might come into the same wealthy place where he walked with such serenity even amid life's sore trials.
When it began to be difficult to lay hands upon them, it was only necessary to send for a missionary, who would gradually collect them for purposes of instruction and worship.
The interval between them and the main-land is gradually filling up by a process similar to that by which the islands themselves were formed.
The Spaniards, however, by frequently using them in the pursuit of escaping natives, without thinking it worth while to restrain their motions, gradually educated them to a taste for human blood.
Then spread wide the subject, as plains upon plains of water-land; though the time was gradually increased.
The afternoon brought on a dull ache in my I liver which gradually subsided and disappeared after numerous excursions to the bathroom.
As I descended, I gradually gained momentum, eventually finding myself duly out of control of my legs.
As the bag of solution gradually coursed through my veins, slowly, due to the small size of the needle, the nurse re-entered the room to watch its progress.
While some people would be ready to speak candidly after a brief time, others need to ingest the situation gradually and should not be pressed into heavy conversation directly following a shock.
I was also aware of its effect internally, and exercise gradually tapered off into nonexistence.
As the class wore on, those seated about the room would either begin to fidget uncontrollably or gradually transcend earthly consciousness into a vast ocean of dreams.
Little by little the crowd gradually dispersed, leaving the comparatively small group of the Johnson's, Todd, Debbie, and Mom and Dad.
I felt lifeless after school, and began to wonder why I maintained the effort; I had no foreseeable future in which I could utilize the knowledge obtained in college, and my time and energy thus spent gradually took on the guise of futility.
After several days, the green rings gradually but steadily accumulate and I break down and rinse away their interesting circular design.
The darkness gradually melted away beneath the city lights, and I awoke to the startling realization that I was hungry.
What, for others, would come more gradually but perhaps more painfully as well, I experienced in an instant.
Once returned to our motel, I began to note the uneasy qualms of an upset stomach gradually gaining momentum.
Things are gradually becoming easier to handle, although my desire to return home as soon as possible is yet a prominent thought in my mind.
Life became larger than it had been as my eyes gradually opened, widening the scope through which I gained my image of existence.
On the table, close at hand, lay the evidence of their impending doom, and a longing for that end gradually took complete possession of her, excluding every other feeling.
The pathgradually sloped upwards and at last she ascended, by a spiral staircase, to the ground-floor of the temple.
When this was done, and we lay close together, warming each other, I found that the chill gradually passed out of my blood.
His idea was to admit the fire-damp into the lamp gradually by narrow tubes, so that it would be consumed by combustion.
First it looked like a dim ghost of a shore, but gradually it grew distinct and clear.
Some people thought it was round like a pancake and that the waters which surrounded the land gradually changed into mist and vapor and that he who ventured out into these vapors fell through the mist and clouds down into--they knew not where.
The cold increased a little every day, to be sure, but I became gradually accustomed to it, and soon began to fancy that the Arctic climate was not so difficult to endure as I had supposed.
Cæsar was all this time graduallyadvancing toward Rome.
The fact of slavery without the name was gradually imposed on the agricultural classes, and after the suppression of the monasteries in England work as work lost its sacred character and fell under contempt.
Gradually the name, slightly modified, was applied also to all of the surrounding country.
Gradually his eyes became accustomed to the dim light, and he cast about.
Fish leaped forth and fell with a sounding splash, and the circles would widen and gradually vanish.
They took a good-sized 'fiat' and gradually extended it till they had the whole of the large house.
Gradually she forgot, an aching pain in her body lulling the aching pain of her mind.
For a while they chatted on indifferent matters, but gradually relapsed into silence, rarely broken.
Gradually the white disc of the moon expanded before her and blotted out all active consciousness.
They had forced the conversation at first, but gradually it became natural.
Ford had gradually worked himself into a white rage.
Work gradually became more uncertain, wages fell and rents kept up.
And when the girls talked at work they spoke of lots of things we never heard of in the bush and gradually I got to know what made me sick at heart.
At least, so it came gradually to Ned as he walked silently by Nellie's side.
Clare went on improvising, but gradually the notes of triumph became less pronounced, and the modulation was in a minor key.
Gradually then her steps became firmer and more deliberate.
The expression that Agnes's face had worn gradually passed away as she heard them chatting together making mutual explanations.
Michael gradually got used to the dressing of the walnut planks; the ax, too, did good service, and Noemi admired him greatly.
The huge lake does not freeze like rivers, on which the ice masses gradually collect: here in one moment of calm the whole surface is covered with a sheet of ice like crystal; and in the morning a smooth unruffled mirror is outspread.
Gradually he noticed that it was growing darker in the room: the shades of night veiled closely every object, the light grew dim.
Timea learned gradually the art of growing used to hope and happiness--she had a good teacher.
Timea had gradually laid aside her mourning, as if it was hard to separate from it entirely, and as if she wished to learn gladness slowly.
Timea did not understand what he said, but she shrunk from his bloodshot eyes, and preferred to go back to her cabin, where she lay down, and saw the water rush through the door and mount gradually to the level of the edge of her bed.
During the long time Timar spent in the ownerless island, he had gradually become convinced that it was by no means so concealed as to be unknown: its existence was known to a large class of visitors.
I couldn't see his face, but I saw a hand stealing gradually out towards the leg of a man who stood near.
Five or six balls of an intense white light broke from it, and gradually fell towards the ground, lighting up the whole surrounding plain.
The wives of the peons were now taught to milk; and more and more cows were gradually added to the number, until in six months there were fifty cows in full milk.
The deer, which were upon the point of flight, paused to gaze at this strange object; then they began to move in a circle, their looks still directed at this unknown thing, to which they gradually kept approaching as they moved round it.
He was soon rewarded by the sound of the baaing of the sheep; and dismounting and leading his horse, he gradually approached the spot.
Bad areas of thieves and prostitutes and the slums east of the City were gradually being replaced by warehouses and offices.
The Elizabethan love of madrigal playing gradually gave way to a taste for instrumental music, including organs and flutes.
Account graduallycame under the equity jurisdiction of Chancery.
Because the church's administration was inefficient and corrupt and its punishments inadequate, they gradually lost their power to the common law justices and Justices of the Peace.
The use of the action of trover gradually supplants the action of detinue, which involves compurgation.
The Bank gradually convinced many of its clients to use its "check" [cheque] paper when drawing.
The Commons gradually won for its members freedom from arrest without its permission and the right of punishing and expelling members for crimes committed.
Gradually the light began to creep over the sky and, as it became lighter, there was a movement among the blacks.
After a few days, however, they relaxed their vigilance, and Jim gradually took these tasks also upon himself.
The fight now commenced in earnest, but the settlers and police gradually made their way forward.
He uttered exclamations of dismay, at seeing his master's condition; for Reuben had been gradually growing faint, and could now scarcely support himself on his elbow.
My horse is a good one, you know, and I gained on them all except one man, who must have been capitally mounted, for he graduallycrept up to me.
The Paramatta was still lying nearly over on her beam ends, but gradually her head began to pay off, and she slowly righted.
A river of them poured in through the gate--and then gradually ebbed away again, until there were only a few late ones running, and the watchman pacing up and down, and the hungry strangers stamping and shivering.
At first this request caused poor Jurgis the most acute agony, and it was like pulling teeth to get him to talk; but gradually he found out what was wanted, and in the end he learned to stand up and speak his piece with enthusiasm.
Gradually there was effected a separation between the spectators and the guests--a separation at least sufficiently complete for working purposes.
This spring is of considerable power compared with its dimensions, being capable of raising about 45 pounds upon a barrel of four inches diameter after the first turn, and gradually increasing as it is wound up.
I expect to see him gradually attaining toward the entire change from his natural self.
Brown grew gradually better in his health, that is, the fever mended, but the distemper settled on his limbs, so that he seemed likely to be a poor, weakly cripple the rest of his life.
With new forms new faculties have been acquired, and gradually nature has arrived at the state where we actually see it.
Nature hasgradually created the different organs of animals, varying the structure and situation of these organs according to circumstances, and has progressively improved their powers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gradually" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: degree; piecemeal; slowly; step
