Sentence examples for gradually closes from inspiring English sources

"But that window gradually closes as the agenda moves on.

Love blasts through our habitual sclerotic selfishness, the narrow "me first" that gradually closes us down, the dead-end of the loveless life.

Dr. McWilliams said the findings could mean that additional savings will come as the Medicare Part D program gradually closes the so-called "doughnut hole" in coverage over the next decade, as mandated by the federal health care law.

Jonathan D. Blum, deputy administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said new research showed that more than 5.1 million Medicare beneficiaries had saved over $3.2 billion on prescription drugs because of the new law, which gradually closes a gap in prescription coverage by offering drug discounts.

As the German noose pulls tighter, the Levins' world gradually closes in until it is concentrated on their apartment, the contents of the store cupboard, the stove, and Anna's dangerous forays to collect their bread ration or to forage for wood among the city's bombed-out buildings.

As the light in the picture cycles through excruciatingly slow changes, tinting the mound ochre, then chartreuse, then mauve and black as night falls, she gradually closes her eyes and turns her head to the side as if sleeping — her half-obscured headdress then suggesting a Nefertiti crown.

We're gradually closing in.

For Jenkins, the inside track was gradually closed off.

The mines were gradually closed after World War II.

Lives have been lived and are gradually closing down.

He imagines hearing their bills banging against trees in the distance and moving gradually closer.