Sentence examples for steadily heavier from inspiring English sources

It became steadily heavier, causing the crowd to break up a bit.

The ice grew steadily heavier through the morning, cleared, then got heavy again as we navigated the Crystal Sound.

But as the rain grew steadily heavier there was a growing fear, as there is elsewhere in the stricken Thames valley, that the situation is likely to get worse again before it gets better.

But each time he showed up for the reunion, he had grown steadily heavier, until the 2003 photograph, when he looked straightforwardly obese, the only one of his size in the entire picture.

Although Americans have grown steadily heavier in the last decade, women's plus-size clothing still makes up only 17 percent of the women's apparel market today, according to NPD.

As the spring drizzle grew steadily heavier on Saturday night, the unsung Hull wing scored his first Test try to secure Britain's first win in Australia or New Zealand in nine matches over the past 14 years and considered reliving probably the most famous celebration in the history of Ashes Tests.

The new suits, which steadily grew heavier, rendered their wearers less capable of dismounted action and, as legend has it, allowed them to get on horseback only with the aid of a crane.

In a region that has been moving steadily from heavy industry to an economy dominated by information and services, Richmond remains home to a major oil refinery.

EVER since Sputnik was launched in 1957, satellites have got steadily larger and heavier.

However, the low abundance of heavy elements in the chromosphere of Epsilon Eridani is indicative of an older star, because the medium out of which stars form is steadily enriched by heavier elements produced by older generations of stars.

Even at the modest zenith of the British left in the 1970s, the reputations of many union leaders, and of the mildly reformist Labour PM Harold Wilson, were steadily eroded by heavy hints and blunt allegations from rightwing politicians and commentators that they were foreign stooges.