The challenge is heading off further warming by gradually weaning ourselves from fossil fuels.

The Craigheads argued that they should be weaned gradually from the dumps.

The hope is that the coalition could gradually wean large enterprises and the central bank from their easy-money policies and keep inflation from wrecking reform.

The super-soldiers had died fast, when they died, with no lingering years of arthritic old age to gradually wean them from their mortality.

There are also products that gradually wean you off nicotine.

Nicoderm plans to offer 21-milligram, 14-milligram and 7-milligram patches, so smokers can gradually wean themselves over 10 weeks.

After several months, they gradually wean themselves from the nicotine replacement.

It gradually weaned itself from dependence on the grant and earned its keep by the fruits of its research work.

She had been gradually weaning him off of it, letting his own mind learn to take up more of the slack, but enough remained to allow communication.

His plan: gradually wean the town from doorstep delivery and toward a system of sidewalk service that mimics mailbox drop-offs on country roads.