Sentence examples for gradually mounted from inspiring English sources

American casualties gradually mounted, reaching nearly 500 a week by the end of 1967.

While official expressions of concern in Western capitals have gradually mounted, international action has largely been confined to human-rights forums, while the focus of high-level diplomacy has remained squarely on Iran's nuclear program.

However, the number eleven batsman Hal Hooker stuck with his captain as the score gradually mounted and the opposition's frustrations grew.

Casualties gradually mounted and the regiment's first replacements, three officers and forty-four otheranksks, arrived at the end of June.

But then the third act takes you by the throat with a gradually mounting tension that explodes into a sustained battery of frazzled nerves and splintering shrapnel.

At the same time, through "patience and tenacity," he insists that his country will take the lead in defusing a gradually mounting crisis between Washington and North Korea.

But he stressed that the good times could fall victim to gradually mounting inflation pressures if the Fed did not act to take some steam out of the expansion, which this month became the longest on record at eight years and 11 months.

Pressure from the multinationals was gradually mounting.

New Android app Warmly, from the Seattle-based Chaos Collective, thinks it might be better if an app wakes you up with gradually mounting sounds that not only aren't alien and frightening, but are actually comforting and familiar.

As a penalty for having defended you then, and for having continued to aid you since, my life has come under a gradually mounting attack: I find myself the worldwide victim of mass demonstrations, violence, vituperation and persecution" (emphasis in the original).

Gradually, the mounting alarm is caught on camera, as Akkad films the doomed journey on a hidden camera.