step-by-step

Example Sentences

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"It's in their hands. We need time, an incredible break. I am exhausted and after we see step by step."

From BBC • Mar. 22, 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

Some of the Riders were driven back, further and further into the Deep, falling and fighting as they gave way, step by step, towards the caves.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien