Gradual has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Your English has made gradual progress. | |
| 2. | Computers caused a great, if gradual, change. | |
| 3. | The gradual ruin of our country has to be stopped. | |
| 4. | It's a gradual thing. | |
| 5. | Conversion was peaceful and gradual. | |
| 6. | There's a gradual disappearing of the power of the British Empire. | |
| 7. | Gradual changes take place in our city every year. | |
| 8. | The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and gradual growth of that understanding, which begins a spiritual awakening. The finding of God is coming to one's self. | |
| 9. | The changes have been gradual. | |
| 10. | I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. |