DAY BY DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day by day mean? 

• DAY BY DAY (adverb)
  The adverb DAY BY DAY has 1 sense:

1. gradually and progressively

  Familiarity information: DAY BY DAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY BY DAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gradually and progressively

Synonyms:

daily; day by day

Context example:

his health weakened day by day

 Context examples 

But day by day passed away, and they still saw nothing before them but the scarlet fields.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He took down the great book in which, day by day, he filed the agony columns of the various London journals.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In drawing her up from the world, he was day by day being himself dragged down towards it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Day by day he worked on, and day by day the postman delivered to him rejected manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was ahead of the record then, and gaining day by day.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The news will have something to do with how well you are doing at work or will boost your reputation, which appears to be rising day by day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Day by day she grew queerer and more irritable, and we had ceaseless rows about nothing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is great need, she answered, in the same way, that I should open my whole heart before the soul of generosity and truth, whom, year by year, and day by day, I have loved and venerated more and more, as Heaven knows!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She eats well and sleeps well, and enjoys the fresh air; but all the time the roses in her cheeks are fading, and she gets weaker and more languid day by day; at night I hear her gasping as if for air.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

—him vot told the old Dook of Cumberland that all he vanted vas to fight the King o’ Proosia’s guard, day by day, year in, year out, until ’e ’ad worked out the whole regiment of ’em—and the smallest of ’em six foot long.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)