By limiting outside influences, these policies would gradually cause almost complete isolation of Soviet composers from the rest of the world.

If it goes any more slowly, the pull of gravity will gradually cause its altitude to decrease.

Repeated blows to the head are known to gradually cause permanent brain damage.

Multiple sclerosis can be an insidious disease, affecting many parts of the body and gradually causing serious disability.

This kiss gradually causes its victims to become vargouilles themselves.

But recently, doctors have come to worry far more about permanent damage caused gradually by long-term participation.

The brass clutch ring gradually causes parts to spin at the same speed.

He has no control over the process, and it gradually causes his entire life to unravel.

This, in turn, would gradually cause decline in state authority, and a relative increase in Federal influence.

The doctor may insert a slender rod (laminaria) into the opening to gradually cause it to widen.