"gradually" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The winter rains which had lashed the high ground for eons was gradually washing the soil and rock into the sea.
- Furthermore, as this film was slightly soluble it gradually washed away, leaving no way in which marine life could attach itself to the ship.
- A watery dawn light was gradually washing away the darkness.
- Passing from bed to bed, intent on making one pair of hands do the work of three, at least, I gradually washed, fed, and bandaged my way down the long line of sable heroes, and coming to the very last, found that he was my contraband.
- Once the dough becomes elastic, it is passed through a series of hot and cold water baths that gradually wash away almost all of the starch, bran and germ from the flour.
- Additionally, the mine has two 'Erodible Dumps' - areas where soft waste rock are dumped and the high amount of local rainfall gradually washes into the local rivers.
- The downpour gradually washed the murk out of the sky, and for a while the day beyond the windows brightened from the unnatural plum-purple gloom to the familiar gray light of an autumn storm.
- As it travelled upwards, it met with small jets of water which gradually washed the gangue off the bottom of the belt.
- Rain and surface water gradually wash this material through these fissures and into caves beneath.
- They're still fully committed to the cresting-and-ebbing strategy: one of the two long tracks on their new album "SEADRUM/HOUSE OF SUN" (Vice), their first in five years, was partly recorded on the beach, with the tide gradually washing into the bass drum.
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