Sentence examples for inch at a time from inspiring English sources

This was history made literally an inch at a time.

One inch at a time, he helped reclaim human ground that seemed lost and ruined.

The finished product is shaved, an inch at a time, off the bottom of the bin.

"I wanted people to look at the bodies an inch at a time," he has said.

To fight their way forward one inch at a time, as Donadoni himself explained it.

The truth has been painfully extracted one inch at a time, at considerable public expense.

The real tricks for surviving, body and soul, are carried off through the inch-at-a-time gumption of individual soldiers.

One half of each core is kept in a cooler as an archive, but the other is meticulously dissected, a quarter-inch at a time, with samples tested for pollen, lead and cesium, each of which provides a marker for a particular period of time.

Actually, he had to look at it a few square inches at a time.

Better to make one cut than to amputate two inches at a time.

Slowly slide the bookcase a few inches at a time — safety first!