Sentence examples for gradually took from inspiring English sources

The production gradually took shape.

Mine gradually took me over.

But West Ham gradually took control.

But the book gradually took off.

One-stop shopping gradually took over, even in lower Manhattan.

From the 1890s a welfare state gradually took shape.

Washington gradually took control and scored twice before intermission.

After 1685 the intendant, a French administrative official, gradually took over many of the council's functions.

Thus the ceremony, perhaps influenced by Christianity, gradually took on the elements of moral purification.

The market was held in Chicago until the late fifties when High Point gradually took over.

The younger Mr. Shanahan gradually took over the business, but closed it in 2003.