step by step

1. By degrees, as in You'll have to go through this recipe step by step. This idiom transfers putting one foot in front of the other to other kinds of progress. [c. 1700]

Example Sentences

“We will, step by step, fine-tune the military machinery of this powerful national movement, defending our peace, our sovereignty and our right to the future,” Maduro said.

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This is a program building step by step, focusing on academics during the day, study halls, then sports in the afternoon.

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That is the counter-terrorism policing way: slowly but surely, step by step, seek to contain and, ultimately, crush the threat.

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“Plus, Serato always does a phenomenal job at providing the best instruction, step by step.”

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“We need to take it step by step, meaning game by game,” Cherundolo said.

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Related Words

• piecemeal