These meetings yielded gradually increased British prominence in the region.

He was gradually yielding to the temptation of braving another night in the hut, and seeing what would follow, when the old woman spoke.

Schmaltz may be prepared by a dry process where the pieces are cooked under low heat and stirred, gradually yielding their fat.

Evelyn Hill gradually yielded the reins to him but kept pitching in well into her eighties.

For some time after the initial failure nothing very sensational or catastrophic happens, the wood just yields gradually.

Bewildered and hesitant, he gradually yields to the notion that the original Helena will be restored to him.

He was the team's first star, but gradually yielded that role to George Brett by the mid-1970s.

This yearning gradually yields to an emotional acceptance of the death.

He yields gradually to circumstances, a cautious surrender to a way of speaking and thinking.

Muscle by muscle my body gradually yielded to my will.