slowly but surely

Adverb

Meaning

slowly but surely (not comparable)

In a slow, yet careful manner.

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Examples

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. Marianne Williamson

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do. Stefan Zweig

From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed. John Burroughs

Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of questions: from questions that Mr. Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury the picture of the Ewell's home life. Harper Lee

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. Robert Falcon Scott

Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village. Malian Proverb

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