How to Use day by day in a Sentence

day by day

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  • Then givin' him tools to walk through life like day by day, know nothin' 'bout that.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In the meantime, those stuck in limbo take things day by day.
    Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The Camino is wise; its lessons come slowly, mile by mile, day by day.
    Daniela Diaz, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025
  • If the process draws out longer than that, Utah would lose leverage day by day.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Cousins is now three weeks into being shut down and taking things day by day.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • This culture was built day by day, brick by brick, steady and gradual.
    Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • It's been a hard journey – just living day by day and fighting day by day.
    Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • For his part, Roach is taking each red carpet moment day by day.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The color of your little one's poop will probably change quite a bit day by day.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
  • She’s gone on some visits, and just taking it day by day and enjoying the ride.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Starmer initially stood up for his deputy, but his support grew more anemic day by day.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The future is revealing itself, day by day, week by week, and month by month.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Pick-up and drop-off schedules vary day by day as the parents juggle work schedules.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • There’s no such thing as perfect, so take it day by day, Gemini.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The brothers, according to their cousin, are trying their best to take things day by day.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Both men were on strike for the first time in their lives, and have been talking one another through it day by day.
    Jenna Russell, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Get better day by day, daily improvement, that’s our main thing.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And the compound effect is little things day by day possibly adding up to big things.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Our priorities and needs are changing day by day and sometimes hour by hour.
    Archway Homes, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2025
  • But bit by bit, day by day, week by week, his recovery slowly progresses.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Then, day by day, the two sets of dots began to mirror each other, to repeat the same patterns.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In short, day by day, the terrorist regime in Iran seems to be crumbling from within.
    Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The situation is dynamic, and the teams on the ground are taking it day by day.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 25 July 2024
  • Being in the moment still with one another, but also so taking step by step, day by day.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Our love became a story that Enrique and I were telling each other day by day.
    Paz Pardo, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Funding cliff The children wasting away, day by day, don’t have time to wait for funding gaps to be filled.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • So, despite the colder water, their desire to feed increases day by day.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The chance of workers acting en masse to throw their weight behind the protests, while still a distant prospect, appears to grow day by day.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
  • In the past, my family had existed day by day, each one as precarious as the next.
    Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • As soon as a pineapple is harvested, the clock starts ticking and the quality lowers day by day.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2024

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