How to Use incremental in a Sentence

incremental

adjective
  • The question is: Is there the will to take an incremental step?
    NBC News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • More than incremental steps will be needed to get back in the race.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But while the growth in the men’s field is incremental, the growth in the women’s field has been far more dramatic.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • But the coaches who spoke there are tired of progress that is incremental at best.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The inner life and the outer life are parts of the same process of incremental improvement.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But Headlee has some faith in the power of incremental change.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The law left the matter in the hands of the F.D.A. and its advisers, who took incremental steps forward.
    New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The loans are tied to a tax incremental financing district at the Sears site.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Progress has been slow, with the record set in the 1980s and only incremental improvements made since.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Wall Street analysts think that the incremental revenue from the fees would be less than 4%.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The agent who spoke to me described the interview as incremental truth telling.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But in the past, even the direst and rattling hacks have led only to incremental progress on the most basic best practices.
    WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Those are incremental raises based on years on the job.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The revamp for comfort is matched by an incremental increase in room between the knees and the seat ahead.
    Silas Valentino, Chron, 6 July 2022
  • The next decades were a grind of incremental medical progress: A child born with CF in the ’50s could expect to live until age 5.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • After that, they would be taxed on the incremental changes in value each year.
    Rick Rouan, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Over the past year, Russia has made incremental progress on the battlefield, though its gains have come at a high price.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Even so, both sides hope that incremental deals along the way will ease a path to an overall settlement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The caps in both leagues can increase if incremental revenue goals are reached.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 18 July 2025
  • Yes, the journey can look overwhelming, but it’s the incremental actions that yield a sea of change.
    Lauren Leader, ELLE, 30 June 2022
  • Also, this has been a slow, incremental process to get a plan and funding for it in place to clean up the border pollution.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • With today’s report, there’s more emphasis on the incremental steps the world needs to take right away.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But one reason the deal is worth passing: The provisions on work and welfare are incremental progress the GOP can build on.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 May 2023
  • They’re now laid down on coin-size chips by the billion, the products of decades of incremental improvements.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • The brief thrill of incremental problem-solving kept them hooked.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Scott, with Black Lives Matter Utah, said slow, incremental change is not enough.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • Those funds would come from a tax incremental financing district in the Park East area.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
  • And that incremental progress could come at a steep cost for employers.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Bit by bit, incremental wins on the cases can add up to powerful precedents.
    Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025

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