Baseball gradually crept back as the focal point yesterday.

The meaning of its emptiness crept over her only gradually.

Of course, they'd gradually creep back in, one by one, and the whole thing would have to happen all over again.

The countryside, not much present on the stage for years, has been gradually creeping onto the boards.

A strange chillness, whether of the body or spirit they could not tell, was creeping gradually over them all.

A slow smile gradually crept across his face.

And an unnerving numbness was gradually creeping into his feet.

But you could get that tanker gradually creeping along and moving.

Not even the clouds of a gathering summer storm would explain the darkness creeping gradually across his vision.

And of course the panic gradually crept in and I began to crack.