It wound itself round the stem and gradually got higher and higher.

That was gradually winding down and emptying of everything but memories and secrets.

"The dollar gradually wound lower, finishing the session at the bottom of its trading range," said Marc Chandler, an analyst with the consulting firm IDEA.

Faulkner's team gradually wound down and left the main series after the 2002 V8 Supercar season.

After Williams' death in the US, the operations of the various El Caballo Blanco parks gradually wound down and ceased.

Terry and Dougal left the Whirling Disc together and walked with elaborate nonchalance along a series of back streets, gradually winding toward the other end of town.

Little did our forebears suspect, until about the 18th century, that the Earth clock was gradually winding down, retarded by the moon.

From my windows I saw the hearse and the carriages wind along the road and gradually grow vague and spectral in the falling snow, and presently disappear.

"They'll gradually wind their way to the nesting site," he said.

Despite that, the New Deal gradually wound down and by 1939 the president had turned his attention towards foreign policy.