step-by-step

Example Sentences

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"We will acclimatise them step by step, so that they do not experience too much stress," he added.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Reporter Martin Fackler, who said that entering post-storm Fukushima was “like entering hell,” breaks down, step by step, what occurs inside a nuclear reactor when power is lost and the fissionable material can’t be cooled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Rather than completing division in a single cycle, the cell achieves it step by step through alternating physical states of the cytoplasm.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

The lust for vengeance eventually gets the better of him, but Swenson leads us step by step to depravity through sorrow, injustice and humiliation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

It seemed to him they gathered up the silence like a mantle and carried it along with them, step by step.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor