Sentence examples for gradually took shape from inspiring English sources

The production gradually took shape.

From the 1890s a welfare state gradually took shape.

Along these lines a eucharistic theology gradually took shape in the apostolic and early church without much controversy or formulation.

Layer by layer, like sheets of phyllo dough on a streudel, the sculpture that had been designed on a nearby desktop computer gradually took shape.

While he does an excellent job of showing how the new order gradually took shape, his analysis does leave space for a continuing debate on the reasons for the new regime's stability.

The idea of creating a Stalinist-era interior gradually took shape as he knocked down the walls that divided the apartment into small, dark rooms, revealing its original generous proportions, a hallmark of 1930s Russian Art Deco.

The Doctor is gradually taking shape in our mind as America's ideal Columbia professor.

A new way of shopping – and, conceivably, a new way for fashion – is gradually taking shape.

He is an initiate --, tanding, transmuting transmuting -- until something different, still called alchemy, gradually takes shape.

Through Nick's eyes and Mr. Rudd's lucid voice-over, the glamorous, enticing enigma who is Gatsby gradually takes shape.

Under Tsvangirai, the labor movement became the main vehicle for Zimbabwe's fledgling opposition, gradually taking shape, in 1999, as the M.D.C.