Sentence examples for gradually cease from inspiring English sources

"Egyptian economy" might gradually cease to be an oxymoron.

The chickens gradually cease to lay, so she obtains a rooster from a harpsichord maker.

As people age, acid-producing cells in the stomach may gradually cease to function, a condition called atrophic gastritis.

Men "fall in love with the Organisation", then gradually cease to do anything that does not entail "Organisation duties... Organisation requirements".

You stare at pictures of dental drills, snakes or airplane interiors, depending on your affliction, and these totems of menace -- interspersed with reassuring images of teddy bears -- gradually cease to provoke you.

The two patients, Chris James and Robin Millar, lost their vision due to a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, where the photoreceptor cells at the back of the eye gradually cease to function.

The e-mail gradually ceased.

Curatorship of the collection gradually ceased.

The others withdrew into their private world and gradually ceased to publish or exhibit.

But in 1899 he took up drawing and his outbursts gradually ceased.

With the Hogarth Press's emergence as a major publishing house, the Woolfs gradually ceased being their own printers.