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drop by drop
adverb as in bit by bit
adverb as in by degrees
Example Sentences
Bobby Kennedy, who eulogized King in Indianapolis at a speech before a mostly Black crowd during the height of the Vietnam War quoted the Greek playwright Aeschylus, “Even 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.”
Drop by drop, a new clear liquid settles in the collection pipes.
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.
"I was extracting the day-to-day information drop by drop. There was no willingness to explain how this happened," Rial told the Senate economic affairs committee, referring to the accounting problems that led the firm to file for bankruptcy protection in January.
Swift has been dripping information out about her forthcoming album drop by drop.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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