How to Use baby step in a Sentence

baby step

noun

• Big strides on the ice, but baby steps from a first-time pro.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• The baby stepped out of the showcase and headed down the aisle toward the street.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
• In fits and starts, the two take baby steps toward change.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
• And Alwine wants to be there, every baby step of the way.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• So if that’s even like, her teaching me how to cook — just baby steps.
  — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2019
• Perhaps the baby steps of progress can lead to his being back in the lineup soon.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• There’s no need to make major changes at first, just baby steps.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The 10 points and nine rebounds on the stat sheet may have looked like a baby step forward, but this proved to be a light-goes-on moment.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• The new space stations in orbit are now seen as the first baby steps to this future, a step first taken in 2019.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2019
• Now Ash is making baby steps into the world as a trans person.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• But its new service is much more of a baby step than a giant leap forward.
  — David Hamilton, Fortune, 12 May 2023
• People won’t want to climb a snowbank or take baby steps to avoid ice patches.
  — Lew Sichelman | Andrews McMeel Syndication, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• And while some people may be compelled to do just that, others need baby steps.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 12 Sep. 2023
• The fitness tracker, a device with a small market niche, may seem like a baby step.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• For Serena Williams, this year has been about baby steps — her own, and those of her 10-month-old daughter.
  — Sam Farmer, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• But, as with so much in Congress, even the tiniest of baby steps can take forever.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• But hey, baby steps. The teeniest of quadrotors measure a few inches across and weigh a third of an ounce.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 26 June 2019
• In 1938, opinion polls were taking their first baby steps.
  — P. E. Caquet, Time, 24 Sep. 2019
• But few empires are built without bricks and baby steps, and the best recruits will no longer hear that ASU is a lost cause, unable to draw a crowd.
  — Dan Bickley, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
• The reopening of a neighborhood movie theater was, to some, a baby step toward the day the city can open up safely and in full.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Something to keep in mind: Pre-qualified is a baby step towards a loan.
  — Brittany Anas, Marie Claire, 15 Jan. 2020
• William Shaw, a Savannah native, used baby steps to shuffle along a frozen road from his home to the post office.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Why are people so excited about such a small baby step?
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 26 June 2018
• It’s baby steps, but the Cavs have an 11-27 record heading into Saturday night.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2020
• Still, these measures are baby steps, models told us, and there's vast room for improvement.
  — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2018
• In a simple black dress, a far cry from her typical extreme corset pieces, Dalton takes a few baby steps.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
• But for the polarizing ride-share service, even baby steps are moves in the right direction.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2018
• The search for Kentucky's next education chief took some of its first baby steps Friday.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2020
• Rocky Start OpenAI floundered in its early years, struggling to come up with a scheme that made leaps, not baby steps, toward its goal.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Instead, the field’s conventional wisdom for decades has been to take baby steps.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024