Sentence examples for gradually able from inspiring English sources

He was gradually able to win the elephants' trust.

By showing the impact school had on those first few students, we were gradually able to persuade others.

"SOME suppliers at the cheap end are gradually able to move up and become a brand," Mr. James said.

Where they had found work as undocumented crew on other vessels subsequently, they were gradually able to improve their conditions.

Later in his life he is gradually able to see himself with as much clarity as he views his surroundings; he is able to remember the nightmare he once forgot.

Indeed, Muhammad might not even have attracted attention had he not sounded like other holy men, but, by eschewing any source other than the one supreme being, whom he identified as Allāh ("God") and whose message he regarded as cosmically significant and binding, he was gradually able to distinguish himself from all other intermediaries.

Secular Basrawis gradually felt able to breathe again.But only recently has alcohol become easily available.

They came in groups from various European countries; they lived communally until families, gradually, were able to acquire homesteads.

When I realised my friends were still my friends, I gradually felt able to tell more people.

People become gradually less able to run as far or as fast as they used to, or to climb a flight of stairs without becoming short of breath.

As in "Jeanne Dielman" we gradually become able to infer a story — this time, of a young woman's growing autonomy and escape from the past.