day-by-day

[ dey-bahy-dey ]

adjective

1. taking place each day; daily:

   a day-by-day account.

Word History and Origins

Origin of day-by-day¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Idioms and Phrases

On each successive day, daily, as in Day by day he's getting better . Percy Bysshe Shelley used this expression, first recorded in 1362, in Adonais (1821): “fear and grief ... consume us day by day.”

Example Sentences

They logged every incident and released depressing day-by-day accounts of the carnage.

From The Daily Beast

The data is collected by month, but by clicking on a month, you can drill down a step further into the day-by-day activity.

From The Daily Beast

Each was in a day-by-day survival mode—each in his own way yearning for self-worth.

From The Daily Beast

The traffic story is similarly well-articulated, though recent day-by-day stats are hard to find.

From The Daily Beast

All this, says the American former diplomat, amounts to a “day-by-day divestiture of government authority.”

From The Daily Beast

Whereas we day-by-day people, if it do blow and if it do lighten, and the waves are avilanches, we've nothing to lose.

From Project Gutenberg

Following is an examination of the day-by-day account of Fletcher.

From Project Gutenberg

The interest of the story turns on the day-by day developments which show the young wife the price she has paid.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a day-by-day consolidation, not only of interest or experience, but of satisfactions.

From Project Gutenberg

The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments which show the young wife the price she has paid.

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