letter by letter

Example Sentences

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The RNA polymerases move along these strands and copy the stored information letter by letter.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023

In fact, functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrates that humans process written language letter by letter, sound by sound.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

“C-O-V-I-D-19,” Trump said, spelling out, letter by letter, the name of the disease ravaging the nation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2020

Yet there’s a reverence for the technologies that enable their words to reach a wider audience, via radio, or carefully hand-set, letter by letter, in a printing press.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2019

Working rap by rap, letter by letter, even simple messages took a long time to translate.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock