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.