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How to use the word bit-by-bit in a Sentence?

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What I mean to say is no, I don’t want her back, just words hanging like leaves from a tree limb, nothing can bring her back anyway; words wouldn’t build her bit by bit, piece by piece, she’s gone, and there is strength in knowing that. Maybe the longing will ease. Maybe the seconds will lapse into minutes. I’m not Christ – I can’t raise the dead.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Bit by bit we'd get the tree up and decorated, it was artificial, but the sense of togetherness wasn't.

Lawrence Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The end of CBP sends a clear strategic message to US Pacific allies. Bit by bit United States is leaving, it is not reassuring. Instead it is more a remainder that the times are a' changing.

Peter Layton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Violence only breeds violence, after all this time, all these months...I don't blame protesters at all if they move bit by bit towards violence.

Zeina Ibrahim

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We need military men's support, so it depends on the stance of the military, but we hope that it can be accepted by the military as it would reduce bit by bit over time.

Nay Phone Latt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

No one was expecting that behind this embankment so many people pass by every day there was such life, a rich, balanced ecosystem, bit by bit nature has built a place that lives without intervention.

Dan Barbulescu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When I opened the treasury, it was empty! bit by bit, in two to three years, we had turned things around. Peru started to grow.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Look at east German citizens like me - we only got our freedom from dictatorship 25 years ago and now that freedom is being taken away from us bit by bit and we have to make room for all these other people without even being asked.

Alexander Neubert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These processes will begin bit by bit because when you add new crude to your refineries it has to start on a small scale.

Jose Manuel Carrera

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Octavio Paz

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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