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Example sentences for "inching"

Lexicographically close words:
inch; inchanted; inchanting; inched; inches; inchoate; inchoative; incidence; incident; incidental
  1. Troy started inching his way back along the pump housing wall.

  2. He strained, inching them up toward the switch.

  3. Crooked springs in the cushion jabbed him and he tried to avoid them by inching to one side.

  4. Inching to one side, he peered at a tiny light bulb, its filament a hairpin of orange between litter-bunks.

  5. No abyss yawned beneath the feet of the laboring horses nor the runners of the creaking, inching sleigh.

  6. He joined in it now, with a vigor that fended off the dolor of the stormy sunset and the inching sleigh on its high lonely trail.

  7. You're a little devil," commented Mr. Cluett, inching over and putting his arm around her.

  8. The fireflies were inching up the shore in deadly rows.

  9. Fearfully he watched the shadow glide across the paving, inching nearer, a stone at a time.

  10. With a surge of relief, he pulled himself aboard, inching in as he felt the swell pound over him, and then he drew out the folding oars and extended them.

  11. It was now about five meters away, its wheels inching along the rails with a ponderous inevitability as its electric motors hummed.

  12. Then it started rolling; like a monolith, slow and assured, it began inching away from the vehicle and toward him.

  13. Nothing matters with my heart at my ribs a collarbone of doubt inching into my anatomy Everest-wide.

  14. I was fighting a coral-slow battle for a stool at the scratched bar, inching my way closer every time the press of bodies shifted, and he had one of the few seats, surrounded by a litter of cigarette junk and empties, clearly encamped.

  15. I clambered inside without waiting for a reply, and started inching my way under the Hall of Presidents.

  16. The barefooted business may suit superstitious ages and gentlemen of Alcantara, but does not become Mayfair and the nineteenth century.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.