inch along
Example Sentences
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For three sleepless days, they inch along past icebergs 200 feet high, knowing that any collision will sink the ship.
That’s among the worst places to get caught because the final 400 feet of the climb are so steep the only way up and down is to inch along the nearly vertical face clinging to a pair of solid steel cables drilled into the rock.
From Los Angeles Times
Many cars inch along the street below brandishing white flags at the end of sticks poking out of windows.
From Slate
The cars inch along, and someone up ahead is blaring their horn.
From Literature
Rainfall totals are expected to range between half an inch to an inch along the coast and valleys, while the foothills and mountains could get between 1 to 2 inches.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
