ADVERB
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a little bit at a time
the research structure has developed piecemeal -
in a gradual manner
the snake moved gradually toward its victim
How To Use bit by bit In A Sentence
- I know that the idea of an apprenticeship is more important in the classical world, that you should build up a solid career bit by bit, rather than aim for sudden, one-time success. Archive 2006-10-01
- As the evening wore on, bit by bit his head slipped lower and lower until it somehow finished up under his lady friend's arm and it looked like she was carrying the head of Quasimodo.
- bit by bit, a seamless pattern of diamond and crewel and organic stone. THE BROKEN GOD
- The work was never finished and bit by bit the building fell apart.
- Even so basic a global public good as the freedom and security of the seas is nibbled away, bit by bit, through high minded treaties that make it possible for the usual enforcers to plead the inability to enforce. The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Be a Hegemon
- Bit by bit, for I was gey tired, I warstled ower the rigs and up the cleuchs to the Gled-head; syne up the stany Gled-cleuch to the lang grey hill which they ca 'the The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
- They assembled the model ship bit by bit.
- His father began to lose his memory bit by bit, becoming increasingly forgetful.
- Bit by bit the German bureaucratic mill is grinding down the problems and finding solutions. Times, Sunday Times
- We'll no hae yon thing raddle us wi 'radiation and pluck us apart bit by bit. Starfarers
