inch by inch
Example Sentences
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"The soulmate feeling here doesn't float above life; it is made, inch by inch, by life, in the way the pair meet those pressures," she says.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
After each hole is drilled, a crane slowly lifts a 70-foot-long wire straw called a rebar cage and, inch by inch, lowers it into the hole.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Other characters participate in the recreation rebuilding the space inch by inch.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025
Progress is messy, halting and incremental, but it does happen — inch by inch, step by step, mile by mile.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
Very slowly, inch by inch, as the boy struggled not to sink, she crept out until the tip of the branch nearly touched the water.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
