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

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The summit is conquered step by step; persistence fuels the ascent.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
3 months ago

Step-by-step, they talked us through the incredibly intense moments right after she was born and as she took her first breaths, thank you to the firefighters and paramedics on the scene who treated mom and baby at home and then brought us safely to Sibley Hospital in Washington.

Kasie Hunt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are going into the new phase of our determination to form a 30-km( 20-mile) deep safe zone along our southern border, we will clear Tal Rifaat and Manbij of terrorists, and we will do the same to other regions step-by-step.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The occupiers tried to gain a foothold there [in Kherson], their collaborators made various brazen statements, which in Russian are called the very apt word ‘shapkozakidatelstvo’ (false forecasts)... But how did it help them? The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing step by step in the region.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We did this step by step, trying not to lose all the tiny pieces and screws, we are the first people who got to actually see this soil for the first time. It's just the best thing in the world -- like a kid in the candy store, right ?

Juliane Gross

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've just been trying to work in my area, in sports, everything feels so far away. Your whole life you try to achieve something and you go step by step, but this ladder is broken now and now your whole life goes in a different direction.

Vladimir Putin.For Heraskevych

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will take back step by step, slow and slowly, we will continue, day by day. We are getting stronger. We are winning day by day.

The KNDF spokesperson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No doubt masks make a difference, vaccinations are going to really make a big, big difference. I think a combination of these things, hopefully sometime in the future, we can not only get the kids back to school, but we can get rid of the masking situation. We have got to do it in a step-by-step fashion.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have watched women do this quite successfully, they go to the human resources department of their workplace, and they just have a very sort of direct adult conversation and take them step by step through how it helps their employees.

Alisyn Camerota

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Things are improving step by step, now more than 500,000 people have had the vaccine.

Jens Spahn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Our goal is equal marriage at the end. But we choose to go step by step - like many other countries have done, it is a big change for Thai society. People will take time to understand and accept - and we need to reach a compromise with religious groups and others.

Nareeluc Pairchaiyapoom

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Humans by nature are always bound to set goals for them which eventually fulfill their needs and desires. It is the force that drives them to achieve more. But moving in the right direction to achieve is usually uncommon because most of the people wish to achieve more in less time and rush to reach the success, thus just work in a cluttered way. To work in the form of a 'Process' is a factor that is not taken into consideration often. The process is something that you need yourself to mold into, to move forward in a coherent manner. Because Process leads you to your goal step by step.

Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

Step by step we should move to safer and more efficient oxygen supply systems.

Javier Gallardo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're now actually in a position to start talking about opening things up, step by step, phase by phase.

De Blasio

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Our aim has to be to step-by-step eliminate the disease, let's all pull together for one more week.

Austrias Chancellor Sebastian Kurz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Youve got to get yourself in basketball shape, conditioning-wise, and thats going to be a process. Hes eager to be out there and all of his teammates are eager for him to be out there, but its a step by step process that weve got to take so that its done the right way, Gentry addded. Theres no date, per se, but were hoping that its soon. After the Pelicans host the Bulls, they hit the road for games at New York on Friday, Boston on Saturday and Detroit on Monday before returning home to play Utah on Jan. 16. If the Pelicans want Williamson to make his debut in New Orleans, that game could be a candidate, or the following game against the visiting Los Angeles Clippers on Jan. 18. We want to make sure that everything is in place and well take our time.

Alvin Gentry

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'm giving him the information step by step.

Larry Sloven

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm not concerned, i'm giving him the information step by step.

Larry Sloven

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The idea of a more flexible negotiating position that's comprehensive in scope but step by step in implementation is welcome, but the scope and sequence of each reciprocal step still has to be realistic.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

With the current environment and China's relationship with the U.S., this partnership is not very sustainable, there is a quota on how much content you can import and they are subject to censorship, so can only take it step by step.

Yang Xianghua

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Thurgood Marshall didn't bring one giant case to establish racial equality, it was an entire program, it was unfolded step by step.

Jeffrey Bossert Clark

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That's the science of behaviorism, which says that you can teach anything by a carefully designed program of step-by-step reinforcement, whenever they become conditioned, the algorithm will discover that and we start removing notifications from their program.

Samer El Gharib

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't set goals or say, I'm going to beat this person or win that race, it's The Festival and such a rare thing to win. If you look at the top of the mountain, it's a long way up but if you take it step by step then you will keep going up. If you only make it half way, well you've still done well and if you get to the top, only then you can take in the view.

Bryony Frost

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They don't want to do anything that's going to lead to a loss, so it will be a step-by-step process, something they want to keep on the front burner.

Phil Mattingly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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