Sentence examples for gradually fills from inspiring English sources

This, too, is prepared tableside, so that as the evening progresses, the restaurant gradually fills with the smell of butter and orange.

"You know those movies where a train starts out in the lower-right corner and gradually fills the screen?" he asked.

Cutting back and forth in time, Ms. Tyler gradually fills out the portrait of Aaron and Dorothy's marriage, much the way she fleshed out the stories of the couples in "Breathing Lessons" and "The Amateur Marriage".

Mr. Kabokov, who produces ironic tableaus of Soviet domestic and other social rituals is, alas, minimally represented here by four drawings of a window in a communal apartment that gradually fills with angels' wings.

It gradually fills with the pre-theatre dinner crowd, becomes loud and noisy, and has started  to empty again by the time I finally blow it and ask a question too far.

Although Mr. Mendes's production, played on a bare wooden set designed by Tom Piper, starkly lit by Paul Pyant, tends to de-emphasize the warmly regenerative powers of the characters' sojourn in the forest, sprigs of green begin to make more frequent appearances when the stage gradually fills with the rustics.

And they gradually filled it with furniture and objects.

The European glass is half full and gradually filling.

The astronauts will gradually fill it with rubbish.

While he spoke, a larger security detail than usual patrolled the gradually filling seats.

MADD used a pumpkin, which gradually filled as the petition grew.