drop by drop
Example Sentences
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“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025
Swift has been dripping information out about her forthcoming album drop by drop.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Those cells are then genetically modified in the lab to make them more effective at targeting cancer cells, multiplied, and infused back into the patient drop by drop.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2022
Month by month, year by year, I shed my Russianness; as Chekhov once said about his serf parentage, I squeezed my Russianness out of myself drop by drop.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2018
He heard the water, flowing into the pool, drop by drop from the big crack in the side of the cliff.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
