Sentence examples for gradually encroaching from inspiring English sources

The novel's metaphor for this stasis is the gradually encroaching "iron frost" that will finally cover everything.

Some research in social psychology suggests that our brains are not well adapted to protect ourselves from gradually encroaching harms.

"Presto con fuoco" had Natacha Diels, a flutist, and David Broome, a pianist, in a similar relationship, with the piano gradually encroaching on the flute's territory.

You have an impression of the new gradually encroaching on and replacing the old, but it will be a very long time before even the worst of the old is completely gone.

However, ever since the implementation of the Mandarin-only policy in 1946 in Taiwan, non-national languages such as Min have been largely restricted to private domains (Huang 黃宣範 1993), and even in this realm, Mandarin is gradually encroaching.

During the 18th century the Russians gradually encroached on the area.

Visual loss typically starts at the periphery and may gradually encroach on central vision.

"The Berries" began in a teasing staccato, ventured into free improvisation and gradually encroached on English-carol territory.

Consequently, they are usually ignored or underestimated by urban planning policy-makers, with the result that remnant urban green spaces are being gradually encroached upon by urban sprawl.

Since the fallowing periods of the plots are much longer than the planted periods, the swidden horticulturalists must gradually encroach on more distant land.

Once the central portion of the site had been thoroughly plundered, Casana wrote, "looting holes gradually encroached onto the private fields nearby, but did so in an orderly manner, looting on a block-by-block basis within the Roman city grid.