Advertisement
Advertisement
day-by-day
[ dey-bahy-dey ]
adjective
- taking place each day; daily:
a day-by-day account.
Word History and Origins
Origin of day-by-day1
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.
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.
Each was in a day-by-day survival mode—each in his own way yearning for self-worth.
The traffic story is similarly well-articulated, though recent day-by-day stats are hard to find.
All this, says the American former diplomat, amounts to a “day-by-day divestiture of government authority.”
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.
Following is an examination of the day-by-day account of Fletcher.
The interest of the story turns on the day-by day developments which show the young wife the price she has paid.
It is a day-by-day consolidation, not only of interest or experience, but of satisfactions.
The interest of the story turns on the day-by-day developments which show the young wife the price she has paid.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse