The other piles of dirt began to gradually melt away as muddy flash-floods.

Another idea was to allow the hot containers to melt gradually beneath the vast polar ice cap.

This continues the general trend noted over the past thousand years where the once Great Houses melt gradually into the background.

The glaciers that covered the northern half of the continent began to gradually melt, exposing new land for occupation around 17,500 to 14,500 years ago.

Inside the furnace the ore gradually melts and flows downward.

It could melt gradually, he said, but on the other hand, it has two months to get deeper.

Its popularity melted gradually, like Frosty in the sun.

Max's frown gradually melted, and he began to laugh, too.

Elliot has trouble relaxing at first, but gradually melts into a psychedelic union with them.

But no actual fighting took place because Mary's outnumbered troops gradually melted away.