| At noon the barograph curve turned up and the wind moderated, the sky gradually clearing. |
| Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances. |
| Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier and cockier. |
| Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse. |
| Along the coast the mountains gradually merge with the shore. |
| Some have small oriel windows in oval shapes resting on corbeled brickwork, laid in rows that gradually project from the facade. |
