"gradually shape" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the process of developing something over time. For example: "By consistently practicing, I was able to gradually shape my skills into an expert level."
According to gravity theory and computer simulations, she said, dark matter, which only interacts gravitationally, should start out in rounded lumps and then gradually shape itself into filaments and sheets as these lumps collapse along their shortest axes first.
An approach can benefit from the ILO scheme in order to gradually shape, for example, the interestingness function (typically not all patterns with same statistical properties are equally interesting) and the methodology (sequences of decisions to process the vast amount of heterogeneous databases) most appropriate to discover such interesting patterns.
Furthermore, HT aims to gradually shape the mindset and to teach the pregnant woman to become more (self-) confident about her ability to deliver the baby spontaneously vaginally.
Once you are at peace with yourself, life will gradually shape itself around you.
The glass and chrome world outside the tram gradually shape-shifts into lanterns and fairy lights: from pensions and portfolios to Dried Seafood Street – all the way to Kennedy Town and back for the price of a carrot.
(C) Gradually shaped them into individuals who would be useful in Chilean society.
He gradually shaped Reliance into a petrochemicals megalith, despite a stodgy economy and crippling government regulations and bureaucracy.
As the narrator shows us the physical symptoms of fear, grief, desire, anxiety, love and guilt, we come to understand the man being gradually shaped by them.
He was assigned to travel with Harland Sanders himself, and out there, on the lonely highways and byways, Thomas gradually shaped the persona of the genial old gent in the white suit with a secret recipe up his sleeve.
In any period when there is a housing shortage there are bound to be dislocations and disturbances, but things seem to be gradually shaping up, and homeless individuals and groups are getting a roof over their heads.
The random gush of information and observation starts to coalesce into patterns; the leapfrogging backward and forward in time is gradually shaped into history, or at least becomes dried handprints in the warped concrete of memory.
