How to Use baby step in a Sentence

baby step

noun
  • There were all of these baby steps.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • This will take some baby steps.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • These, of course, are all baby steps.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • Big strides on the ice, but baby steps from a first-time pro.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The baby step became a long jump.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no need to make major changes at first, just baby steps.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • So if that’s even like, her teaching me how to cook — just baby steps.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2019
  • The initial gains were baby steps.
    — Shannon Ryan, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Olivia Dean’s baby steps have turned into a sprint.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Growth doesn't happen overnight, so baby steps are pivotal.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than forcing them to go into the crate for six hours at a time, start with baby steps.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • But its new service is much more of a baby step than a giant leap forward.
    — David Hamilton, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • The rest of my journey to perfect credit came in baby steps.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps the baby steps of progress can lead to his being back in the lineup soon.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The baby stepped out of the showcase and headed down the aisle toward the street.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • 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 baby steps began with tearing the house down to the studs and build it board by board and nail by nail.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
  • Week 1 features a road trip to Philly, but baby steps must be taken.
    — Geoffrey Knox, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Now Ash is making baby steps into the world as a trans person.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The fitness tracker, a device with a small market niche, may seem like a baby step.
    — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • That said, these will be the baby steps of the new generation of French elites.
    — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • There were no baby steps involved in the start of Nadar’s collection.
    — Shreejaya Nair, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But there will be no huge leaps here — baby steps, although frustrating sometimes, are key.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Still, Spanish soccer observers say the changes amount to baby steps.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Still, these measures are baby steps, models told us, and there's vast room for improvement.
    — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Shulman had just broken her ankle and was hobbling around the airport, one baby step at a time.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But, as with so much in Congress, even the tiniest of baby steps can take forever.
    — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Because the dress was so structured, Klum could only take baby steps down the step-and-repeat.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The rehab process will require baby steps, and daily progress won’t be visible.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019

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