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
One morning, before he roused Mr. Kugler with cake and coffee, he spelled out “Will you marry me?” letter by letter on individual Post-its and stuck each to a mirror.
From New York Times • May 6, 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
The complicated machinery inside my automaton can produce one hundred and fifty-eight different pictures, and it can write, letter by letter, an entire book, twenty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-nine words.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
